The philosophy of evidence-based medicine
By: Jeremy Howick ; foreword by Paul Glasziou
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, BMJ Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781405196673
Subjects: Medicine; Evidence-based medicine; Philosophy; Evidence-Based Medicine; Medical Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The philosophy of evidence-based medicine; title: What is EBM?; title: What is good evidence for a clinical decision?; title: Ruling out plausible rival hypotheses and confounding factors : a method; title: Resolving the paradox of effectiveness : when do observational studies offer the same degree of evidential support as randomized trials?; title: Questioning double blinding as a universal methodological virtue of clinical trials : resolving the Philip's paradox; title: Placebo controls : problematic and misleading baseline measures of effectiveness; title: Questioning the methodological superiority of "placebo" over "active" controlled trials; title: Examining the paradox that traditional roles for mechanistic reasoning and expert; title: Judgment have been up-ended by EBM; title: A qualified defence of the EBM stance on mechanistic reasoning; title: Knowledge that versus knowledge how : situating the EBM position on expert clinical judgment; title: Moving EBM forward.