Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are currently the gold standard within evidencebased medicine. Usually, they are conducted as sequential trials allowing for monitoring for early signs of effectiveness or harm. However, evidence from early stopped trials is often charged with being biased towards implausibly large effects (e.g., Bassler et al. 2010). To our mind, this skeptical attitude is u...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long and consistently championed the best interests of the child standard as the foundation of pediatric ethics. This standard obligates pediatricians to protect and promote the biopsychosocial interests of children who are patients, as these interests are determined in deliberative (evidencebased, rigorous, transparent, and accountable) clinical jud...

In this paper, a model for assessment and intervention is presented. This model explains how to perform theoryand evidencebased as well as practice-based assessment and intervention. The assessment model applies a holistic approach to treatment planning, which includes recognition of the influence of community, school, peers, family and the functional and structural domains of personality at th...

Background Recent attempts to increase the utilization of evidencebased practice (EBP) by adolescents with substance use disorders (ASUDs) have included direct-to-consumer marketing and educational materials [1]. For instance, both the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the American Psychological Association’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychology have developed educational websites for...

Kristina M. Appelt is Librarian/Assistant Professor at Prairie State College; e-mail: kappelt@prairiestate. edu. Kimberly Pendell is Assistant Information Services Librarian at University of Illinois at Chicago; e-mail: [email protected]. Communication and collaboration with faculty are increasingly important in the development of both curriculum-integrated and stand-alone “just in time” library...

Increasing numbers of police professionals have decided to practice evidence-based policing. Yet many of these ‘‘early adopters’’ encounter opposition from their colleagues. Advocates of evidencebased policing (EBP) increasingly ask whether, or how, an entire agency can be transformed at about the same time, rapidly creating a ‘‘tipping point’’ for ‘‘totally evidenced’’ policing—defined as a st...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its Evidencebased Practice Centers (EPCs), sponsors the development of evidence reports and technology assessments to assist publicand private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality of health care in the United States. The reports and assessments provide organizations with comprehensive, science-based informati...

Last year I had the opportunity to participate in a review study conducted by McMaster University Evidencebased Practice Center, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, to assess the evidence for using heparin in the treatment of burn injury or the complications of burn injury in adults and children. Principal Investigators were Mark Oremus, PhD and Mark Hanson, MD, Med, in addition to Gurvaneet Randhawa, M...

We read with interest the systematic review by Smidt and colleagues on the effectiveness of exercise therapy for patients with disorders of the musculoskeletal, nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems (Smidt et al 2005). Although we applaud and support efforts at providing syntheses of best available evidence to support evidencebased practice in physiotherapy (and rehabilitation more w...

In this article, we situate arts-based health research in the contextual background of evidencebased medicine, knowledge translation and qualitative health research to explain why the ethics of doing arts-based health research has received little attention until now. Then, we present an overview of the ethical issues reported in scientific publications by arts-based health researchers. Finally,...