An approach of practicing medicine with the goal to improve and evaluate patient care. It requires the judicious integration of best research evidence with the patient's values to make decisions about medical care. This method is to help physicians make proper diagnosis, devise best testing plan, choose best treatment and methods of disease prevention, as well as develop guidelines for large groups of patients with the same disease. (from JAMA 296 (9), 2006)
    

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Evidence-Based Medicine

Catalogue

Science meets alternative medicine : what the evidence says about unconventional treatments / edited by Wallace Sampson & Lewis Vaughn.

How to read a paper : the basics of evidence based medicine / Trisha Greenhalgh.

Studying a study and testing a test : how to read the medical evidence / Richard K. Riegelman.

Evaluating health promotion : practice and methods / edited by Margaret Thorogood and Yolande Coombes.

Getting research findings into practice / edited by Andrew Haines and Anna Donald.