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Evidence-Based Medicine 2000;5:34; doi:10.1136/ebm.5.2.34
Copyright © 2000 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
Evidence-Based Medicine 2000; 5:34
© 2000 Evidence-Based Medicine

PURPOSE AND PROCEDURE (ABBREVIATED)

The purpose of Evidence-Based Medicine is to alert clinicians to important advances in internal medicine, general and family practice, surgery, psychiatry, paediatrics, and obstetrics and gynaecology by selecting from the biomedical literature those original and review articles whose results are most likely to be both true and useful. These articles are summarised in value-added abstracts and commented on by clinical experts.

The procedures we follow to achieve this purpose are

  • Detecting, using prestated criteria, the best original and review articles on the cause, course, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, quality of care, or economics of disorders in the foregoing fields
  • Introducing these articles with declarative titles and summarising them accurately in structured abstracts that describe their objectives, methods, results, and conclusions
  • Adding brief, highly expert commentaries to place each of these summaries in its proper clinical and health care context
  • Disseminating these summaries in a timely fashion.

Criteria for review and selection for abstracting

GENERAL

All English-language original and review . . . [Full text of this article]


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