Evidence based medical ethics.

The medical emergency team, evidence-based medicine and ethics.

The medical emergency team (MET), which may be summoned by anyone in a hospital to treat a patient who appears acutely unwell, has been generally accepted as scientifically rational, with no adverse clinical outcomes and only modest resource requirements. Despite this, many centres appear to be awaiting "gold standard" evidence of its effectiveness. We suggest that the quest for evidence is pro...

Ethics and evidence-based medicine.

before the cervical cancer was discovered (median interval, 14 months), but no cervical smear had been obtained. Of particular interest is the fact that six of the 19 patients are in their seventh decade or older, with a median age of 80 years (range, 79–88 years). The Victorian Department of Human Services reports that the cervical-smear participation rate for eligible women in the Gippsland r...

Ethics and evidence-based practice

Evidence based medicine and ethics.

Evidence based medicine is an important modern movement. It has its evangelists; it has its enemies; and now it has the journal: Evidence Based M-edicine. One can tell that a movement is important when its detractors heatedly maintain that it is nothing new. 'Evidence based medicine?' one chemist said to me, 'What other kind of medicine could there possibly be?' and a consultant physician said ...

Ethics and evidence-based practice

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