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Keywords: Evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trials, policy, epidemiology, translational research, history. In the spring of 1990 the young McMasters University Internal Medicine residency coordinator, Dr. Gordon Guyatt, had just introduced a new concept he called “Scientific Medicine.”. The term described a novel method of ...
- Archibald Cochrane (1909–1988): the father of evidence-based ...
Professor Archibald Cochrane (1909–1988) is considered to be...
- Archibald Cochrane (1909–1988): the father of evidence-based ...
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. ... [It] means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research." [1] The aim of EBM is to integrate the ...
Jul 10, 2015 · The EBM movement started in 1981 when a group of clinical epidemiologists at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), led by David Sackett, published the first of a series of articles in the Canadian Medical Association Journal advising physicians how to appraise the medical literature. 5 The actual term “evidence-based medicine” was first coined by Gordon Guyatt, the Program ...
- Achilleas Thoma, Felmont F. Eaves
- 2015
Professor Archibald Cochrane (1909–1988) is considered to be the originator of the idea of evidence-based medicine in our era. With his landmark book ‘Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health services’ he managed to inspire and positively influence the medical society with respect to the proper assessment of reliable ...
- North American Clinical Epidemiology
- The Publication of Evidence-Based Medicine: The JAMA Users’ Guides
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Evidence-based medicine and modern epidemiology share common roots. The history of modern epidemiology and its methods of quantification, surveillance, and control have been traced back to social processes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and the introduction of statistics and probability methods. Toward the middle of the twentieth cent...
The appropriate forum for republication of the McMaster methods appeared in 1990, when Drummond Rennie, a JAMA deputy editor, approached David Sackett and the McMaster clinical epidemiology and biostatistics department. Sackett’s and Rennie’s plan was to publish an updated version of the 1980 CMAJ“Readers’ Guides” divided into two series. The first...
When the first article on evidence-based medicine was published in November 1992, the methods were not new; they were nearly a quarter-century old. Like its earlier iteration in 1978, the 1992 version of evidence-based medicine was developed and presented in the immediate context of medical education at McMaster. This intimate relation between medi...
- Ariel L. Zimerman
- 2013
Mar 25, 2020 · Gordon Guyatt from McMaster University in Canada coined the term "evidence-based medicine" in 1990. The Canadian researcher David Sackett then co-authored the article "Evidence based medicine: What it is and what it isn’t" in 1996 with colleagues. In the article, evidence-based medicine is defined as "the conscientious, explicit, and ...
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The history of evidence based medicine Evidence based medicine is one of modern medicine’s greatest intellectual achievements. Just 20 years after the term began to be used, an early and informal history has emerged. In early 2014 The BMJ collaborated with JAMA to capture this history in a video project. The two journals invited six ...
