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Evidence-Based Medicine Online comprises the cumulative contents (from January 2000 onwards) of the bimonthly print edition of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). Brian Haynes and Paul Glasziou edit the journal, and the British Medical Journal Publishing Group with the assistance of Stanford University’s Highwire Press publishes it online.
The general purpose of Evidence-Based Medicine is to select from the biomedical literature those articles reporting original studies and systematic reviews that warrant immediate attention by physicians attempting to keep up to date with important advances in general and family practice, internal medicine, surgery, psychiatry, paediatrics, and obstetrics and gynaecology. Members of the editorial staff scan more than 100 general medical and specialist journals on a regular basis to identify the most clinically important and valid research for clinicians. For example, to be selected, therapy studies should be randomised trials …