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Users' Guide to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
edited by Gordon Guyatt and Drummond Rennie, 736 pp (with CD-ROM),
$59.95, ISBN 1-57947-174-9, Chicago, Ill, AMA Press, 2002.
Wayne F. Larrabee, Jr, MD, Reviewer
Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2002;4:56.
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Gordon Guyatt, MD, and Drummond Rennie, MD, have not only edited a new
book but provided physicians tools to practice better medicine:
Evidenced Based Medicine (EBM) is about solving clinical problems.
In 1992 we described EBM as a shift in medical paradigms. In contrast to the
traditional paradigm of medical practice, EBM acknowledges that intuition,
unsystematic clinical experience, and pathophysiologic reasoning are insufficient
grounds for clinical decision making; and it stresses the examination of evidence
from clinical research.
The manual defines 2 principles of EBM: (1) evidence alone is never
sufficient to make a clinical decision; (2) EBM posits a hierarchy of evidence
to guide clinical decision making. This book grew out of a series of 25 articles
published in JAMA between 1993 and 2000, and is a collaborative effort of
50 members of the EBM working group. Part 1 covers the basic information . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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