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Evidence-Based Medicine 2000;5:39; doi:10.1136/ebm.5.2.39
Copyright © 2000 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
Evidence-Based Medicine 2000; 5:39
© 2000 Evidence-Based Medicine

Clinical Evidence

Andrew Polmear

University of Sussex Brighton, UK

The publication of Clinical EvidenceGo is a major event in the process of assisting clinicians in making their practices evidence based. Its aims are precise: to provide evidence to assist clinicians in answering the questions most relevant to clinical practice and to highlight areas where that evidence is lacking. The book does not aim to make recommendations, nor does it judge effectiveness or cost-effectiveness. Both beneficial and harmful effects of therapy are presented, but clinicians are left to translate these effects into an estimate of effectiveness for the individual patient.


 

An explicit and multilayered approach was used in the systematic retrieval and appraisal of the evidence in this text. Topics were chosen from national data on morbidity and mortality, with advice from clinicians and patient groups. Questions . . . [Full text of this article]


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