Doing the Right Thing Right: Is Evidence-Based Medicine the Answer?
Authors: Eleanor Z. Wallace
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1997)

Medical Writings1 July 1997Doing the Right Thing Right: Is Evidence-Based Medicine the Answer?Eleanor Z. Wallace, MD and Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhDEleanor Z. Wallace, MDLong Island Jewish Medical Center; New Hyde Park, NY 11040 (Wallace).Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574Search for more papers by this author and Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhDLong Island Jewish Medical Center; New Hyde Park, NY 11040 (Wallace).Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-127-1-199707010-00027 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBMSackett DL, Richardson WS, Rosenberg W, Haynes RB. 250 pages. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1997. $24.99. ISBN 0443056862. Order phone 800-553-5426.Evidence-based Healthcare: How to Make Health Policy and Management DecisionsMuir Gray JA. 270 pages. United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone; 1997. $29.95. ISBN 0443057214. Order phone 800-553-5426.The germ theory of disease, the introduction of bedside teaching, the move to problem-based learning, the clinical application of molecular biology-landmark concepts in medicine appear regularly and require physicians to use new skills. The discipline of evidence-based medicine may be such a concept. Provoking enthusiasm ...References1. Naylor CD. Grey zones of clinical practice: some limits to evidence-based medicine. Lancet. 1995; 345:840-2. Google Scholar2. Weed LL. Knowledge Coupling: New Premises and New Tools for Medical Care and Education. New York: Springer-Verlag; 1991:4. Google Scholar3. Sackett DL, Haynes RB, Tugwell P. Clinical Epidemiology: A Basic Science for Clinical Medicine. 2d ed. Boston: Little, Brown; 1991. Google Scholar4. Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA. 1992; 268:2420-5. Google Scholar5. A proposal for more informative abstracts of clinical articles. Ad Hoc Working Group for Critical Appraisal of the Medical Literature. Ann Intern Med. 1987; 106:598-604. Google Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Long Island Jewish Medical Center; New Hyde Park, NY 11040 (Wallace).Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574Corresponding Author: Eleanor Z. Wallace, MD, Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 270-05 76th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040.Current Author Addresses: Dr. Wallace: Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 270-05 76th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byHealth Technology AssessmentHIT or Miss: the application of health care information technology to managing uncertainty in clinical decision makingEvidence-Based Practice and Clinical Decision Making: Itʼs Not Just the Research Course AnymoreAN EVIDENCE BASED APPROACH TO DIAGNOSTIC TESTING IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE 1 July 1997Volume 127, Issue 1Page: 91-94KeywordsClinical epidemiologyDecision makingEvidence based medicineHealth careHealth care policyHospital medicineInternetLibrariesProblem solvingSystematic reviews ePublished: 15 August 2000 Issue Published: 1 July 1997 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1997 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...