The role of evidence-based medicine in NICE's new guideline.
The term 'evidence-based medicine' was coined in 1992 by Gordon Guyatt and colleagues at McMaster University, Ontario (Guyatt et al, 1992). The underpinning principle of evidence-based medicine is that the systematic synthesis of all reliable information on a topic has greater value than traditional reviews or individual clinical papers....

Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care.
EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE AND THE SEARCH FOR A SCIENCE OF CLINICAL CARE Jeanne Daly Berkeley: University of California Press 2005, HB 276 pp, US 65.00 ISBN: 0 520 24316 1 Jeanne Daly documents how evidence-based medicine turned from a subversive set of ideas of single-minded people across the...

Fulfilling the promise of evidence-based medicine.
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has long been considered the Holy Grail of health care. However, health care stakeholders--payers, providers, consumers, employers--often interpret the value and application of EBM in different ways. To support consistent, appropriate clinical and reimbursement decision making, stakeholders must come to a common understanding about...

Evidence-based medicine.
A case scenario was presented to a group of medical assistant students during their class in Clinical Laboratory Procedures. This is a case of a 9 year old boy who has fever and sore throat for several days. He also complains of local joint pains. The Registered Medical Assistant...

MEDai Evidence-Based Guideline Reporting Provides Decision Support at Point of Care.
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDai, Inc., headquartered in Orlando, FL, a leading healthcare solutions provider, has added a new module to its existing suite of predictive modeling solutions. The new stand-alone module monitors a population's compliance to evidence-based medicine guidelines and alerts stakeholders when there has been...

Is evidence-based medicine patient-centered and is patient-centered care evidence-based?
Are achieving evidence-based medicine (EBM) and cultural competence in medicine (CCM) contradictory goals? In some ways, EBM and CCM are complementary means to improve quality; but it can also appear that, by virtue of their methods of changing medical practice, they are fundamentally at odds. Yet each is an...

Patient outcomes and evidence-based medicine in a preferred provider organization setting: a six-year evaluation of a physician pay-for-performance program.
Within the past decade, several Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports have recommended quality-based incentive programs as effective tools to improve quality of care (Kohn, Corrigan, and Donaldson 2000; IOM 2001; Corrigan, Eden, and Smith 2002). In response, many health plans, as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

8. Evidence-based medicine (EbM) versus health services research: how is complementary oncology represented therein?
Oncological therapy approaches are measured by hard outcome parameters like survival time, quality of life or at best by the relation of survival time and quality of life (health-adjusted life years or quality-adjusted life years). Surrogate markers like response under therapy (complete remission, partial remission) or time to progression...

Wolters Kluwer Health Releases Survey Findings.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-6 November 2008-Wolters Kluwer Health Releases Survey Findings(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Standardized care and improved quality through the practice of evidence-based medicine are hospitals' top objectives for order sets, according to the findings of a recent independent national survey conducted on behalf of...

New Software Streamlines Interface Management, Delivers More System Security and Greater IT Control.
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- LUMEDX Corporation, a leading provider of fully integrated cardiovascular imaging and information systems, introduces the latest version of CardioGate(TM) interface management solution. CardioGate 3.1 enables the management of multiple hospital information system (HIS) and device interfaces through a single, Web-based console while offering...