Evidence-Based Medicine

Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen, Gavin Mooney

Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This superb collection takes a critical view of this concept and examines the economic implications of its imposition.

1. Evidence based medicine: a method, collaboration, movement or crusade? I var Sønbø Kristiansen and Gavin Mooney 2. Evidence, Effectiveness and Ethics. Cochrane's Legacy. Uff Juul Jensen 3. Evidence based nursing: must or mantra? Helle Ploug Hansen 4. Evidence based health economics: Answers in search of questions? Steve Birch 5. Evidence based medicine: objectives and values. Gavin Mooney 6. Randomised clinical trials in assessing inferences about casuality and aetiology. Dag S. Thelle 7. Number needed to treat - number needed to cheat? Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen 8. Decision analysis, EBM and Medical Education: A case study in the diffusion of innovation within academic medicine. Arthur S. Elstein 9. RCT in drug policies - can the best be an enemy of the good? Kjeld Møller Pedersen 10. EBM and International health: Good, but not good enough. Aileen J Plant 11 EBM and clinical practice: does it work? Knut Rasmussen