NIRS - evidence- or eminence-based practice?

Evidence‐based practice: panacea or over promise?

This issue on evidence-based practice in education locates the rise of contemporary interest in evidence-based practice in the political culture of our times and the dominant discourse, noted and critiqued in several of the papers, of the government’s agenda of ‘what works’. It outlines the motivations and origins of the current movement and the different forms of evidence advanced to serve pol...

Evidence, eminence and extrapolation

A full independent drug development programme to demonstrate efficacy may not be ethical and/or feasible in small populations such as paediatric populations or orphan indications. Different levels of extrapolation from a larger population to smaller target populations are widely used for supporting decisions in this situation. There are guidance documents in drug regulation, where a weakening o...

Shouldn't standard rheumatology clinical care be evidence-based rather than eminence-based, eloquence-based, or elegance-based?

Evaluating Senior Nursing Students\' Attitude toward Evidence-Based Practice

Evaluating Senior Nursing Students' Attitude toward Evidence-Based Practice Parvin Mangolian Shahrbabaki1, 2, Jamileh Farokhzadian3*, Sakineh Sabzvari4 Ÿ Received: 05. 11. 2015             Ÿ Revised: 09. 01. 2016              Ÿ Accepted: 27. 01. 2016 1. PhD...

Evidence based medicine in nuclear medicine practice; Part II: Appraising and applying the evidence

  As described in the first part of this article, Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is a growing part of medical practice which emphasizes on the best evidence. Finding this evidence by formulating an answerable question and searching strategies were described in the first part of this review. In this part, appraising the retrieved article (with the main focus on the diag...