The 1998 edition of Best Evidence has just been released. We are proud of it, but given our involvement in assembling it, reluctant to boast. We will tell you about its benefits so you can decide for yourself whether it might help you in providing evidence-based medical care. More than 1300 articles, carefully selected for scientific merit and clinical relevance, are represented by enhanced structured abstracts and expert commentaries. Best Evidence also includes 54 editorials from ACP JC and notes from Evidence-Based Medicine .
Electronic links connect similar articles, letters, corrections, and updates.
Best Evidence includes over 3000 listings from the Other Articles Noted pages of ACP JC . These articles passed our selection criteria but could not be abstracted because of space constraints. It also supports teaching, presentations, and quality-improvement activities. The articles in Best Evidence are both methodologically sound and important to the practice of clinical medicine. The articles are primary studies or systematic reviews on the treatment, prevention, diagnosis, cause, prognosis, clinical prediction, economics, or quality improvement of common or relatively common medical conditions.