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Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine

Abstract

A NEW paradigm for medical practice is emerging. Evidence-based medicine de-emphasizes intuition, unsystematic clinical experience, and pathophysiologic rationale as sufficient grounds for clinical decision making and stresses the examination of evidence from clinical research. Evidence-based medicine requires new skills of the physician, including efficient literature searching and the application of formal rules of evidence evaluating the …

Authors

Guyatt G; Cairns J; Churchill D; Cook D; Haynes B; Hirsh J; Irvine J; Levine M; Levine M; Nishikawa J

Journal

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 268, No. 17, pp. 2420–2425

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Publication Date

November 4, 1992

DOI

10.1001/jama.1992.03490170092032

ISSN

0098-7484