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Evidence-Based Medicine 2008;13:34; doi:10.1136/ebm.13.2.34
Copyright © 2008 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

EBM NOTEBOOK

Jottings...

Paul Glasziou

University of Oxford; Oxford, UK

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Before you open this issue, you hopefully noticed the new format of the journal? Some of the changes are obvious, such as the less cluttered cover, and the reduction in shaded boxes in the abstracts. But other changes are more subtle, such as the separation and reformatting of the "Study design" and "Study question." We hope you like the changes, but as we are always looking to improve, we are also keen to hear other suggestions for improvement.

Dan Hughes recently triggered a useful discussion on the EBHC email list by asking about "the issue of applying evidence to a single patient in the clinic or at the coal face." Several good suggestions were made, but Rod Jackson capped the discussion with a quote from Aristotle: "None of the arts (ie, science) theorise about individual cases. Medicine, for instance, does not theorise about what will help to cure Socrates or . . . [Full text of this article]


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