1. Hong Kong western medicine doctors emphasise evidencebased practice over patient choice when considering traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). 2. The lack of opportunity to expose to the practice and scientific basis of TCM during western medical training should be redressed. 3. Better understanding of the regulations might promote collaboration between western medicine and TCM practitioners. ...

In our current medical environment, which is characterized by oversight, accountability, practice guidelines, and documentation, it was inevitable that practice patterns would be monitored to rank compliance with guidelines as an index of the quality of care. It is a small step to a “pay-forperformance” approach, which is well intentioned because it uses data from clinical trials and guideline ...

There are many different definitions of evidence based medicine. One of the most is Evidence Based Medicine? Users' Guide to the Medical Literature, 3rd ed. Oxman AD, Sackett DL, Guyatt GH et al. Users' guides to the medical literature. I. How to get started. The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA. 1993. Download Users Guides To The Medical Literature A Manual For EvidenceBased Clinica...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an important component of quality healthcare and a key part of the curriculum for doctors in training. There have been no previous studies comparing attitudes and knowledge of doctors in primary and secondary care towards EBM practice and teaching and this study sets out to investigate this area. We asked participants, a stratified sample of general practitioner...

The United States’ evolving health care system and the recent focus on integrated care underscore the relevance of multidisciplinary approach to psychological treatment. Evidencebased treatment for ADHD that is grounded in a multidisciplinary one-stop shop approach is discussed. A case study is presented, illustrating strategies for utilizing empirically supported multidimensional treatment for...

I a relatively short amount of time, the term “evidencebased public health” has flooded dialogues on program planning, implementation, and evaluation. What is evidence-based public health? Abigail Adams reminded us that “we have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them” (1). In Evidence-Based Public Health, Brownson and colleagues provide not only a precise de...

The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign convened a workshop on 2nd February 2005 to draw up evidencebased recommendations for the management of respiratory problems in adults with muscle diseases. The strength of these recommendations was graded using the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) methodology (Table 1). Neurogenic conditions, neuromuscular junction disorders and myotonic dystro...

Sze-jung Wu; Mark R. Lehto; Yuehwern Yih; Jason J. Saleem 3, ; B.N. Doebbeling 4, 5 School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; VA HSR&D Center on Implementing Evidencebased Practice, Roudebush VAMC, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; IU Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research, Regen...

The practice of medicine is becoming increasingly evidencebased and clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are necessary for advancing evidence-based medicine (EBM). We hypothesize that machine learning methods can play an important role in learning CPGs automatically from data . Automatically induced CPGs can then be used for further manual refinement and deployment, for automated guideline compl...