Adoption of new methods should be based on clinical judgement, the weight of evidence and the balance of probabilities that any new technique, test or treatment might work. The pandemic requires all ...

Evidence-based medicine is the backbone of modern medicine. Any newly proposed therapy needs to be tested in high-quality randomised controlled trials (RCTs) before being considered for approval.

Articles published in the shared decision-making series of BMJ evidence-based medicine highlight some of these issues. The nature and application of shared decision-making The nature and application ...

Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Paul Glasziou, Centre for Research into Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine ...

The volume of literature on herbal medicines can be overwhelming. The authors of Evidence-Based Herbal Medicine state that clinicians are inundated with data from patients, the media, and the internet ...

One of the most influential thinkers on the subject, the late physician David Sackett, defined evidence-based medicine as “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence ...

It features vice president of ethics at the AMA, Dr. Audiey Kao. He and Dr. Alex McDonald—the host of PermanenteDocs Chat—talk about the intersection of medical ethics and evidence-based medicine.