The philosophy of evidence-based medicine Jeremy Howick
Material type: TextSeries: BMJ booksPublication details: Chichester Wiley-Blackwell, BMJ Books 2011Description: xiv, 229 p ill 22 cmISBN:- 9781405196673
- 616.0076
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I: Introduction -- The philosophy of evidence-based medicine -- What is EBM? -- What is good evidence for a clinical decision? -- Part II: Do randomization, double masking, and placebo controls rule out more confounding factors than their alternatives? -- Ruling out plausible rival hypotheses and confounding factors : a method -- Resolving the paradox of effectiveness : when do observational studies offer the same degree of evidential support as randomized trials? -- Questioning double blinding as a universal methodological virtue of clinical trials : resolving the Philip's paradox -- Placebo controls : problematic and misleading baseline measures of effectiveness -- Questioning the methodological superiority of "placebo" over "active" controlled trials -- Part III: Examining the paradox that traditional roles for mechanistic reasoning and expert judgment have been up-ended by EBM -- A qualified defence of the EBM stance on mechanistic reasoning -- Knowledge that versus knowledge how : situating the EBM position on expert clinical judgment -- Part IV: Conclusions -- Moving EBM forward.
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