TY - JOUR T1 - Purpose and procedure JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - e4 LP - e4 DO - 10.1136/ebmed.17.01.e4 VL - 17 IS - 4 A2 - , Y1 - 2012/08/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/17/4/e4.abstract N2 - The general purpose of Evidence-Based Medicine is to select from the health-related literature* those articles reporting important advances in internal medicine, general and family practice, surgery, psychiatry, paediatrics, and obstetrics and gynaecology, and whose results are most likely to be both true and useful. These articles are described, critiqued and commented on by clinical experts. The specific purposes of Evidence-Based Medicine are: to identify, using predefined 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 to provide a description and expert commentary on the context of each article, its methods, and the clinical applications that its findings warrant to disseminate the summaries in a timely fashion The BMJ Publishing Group publishes Evidence-Based Medicine. All articles in a journal issue are considered for inclusion if, based on their abstracts, they meet the following basic and category-specific criteria: Basic criteria All English-language original and review articles in an issue of a candidate journal are considered for abstracting if they concern topics important to the clinical practice of internal medicine, general and family practice, surgery, … ER -