The philosophy of evidence-based medicine / Jeremy Howick ; foreword by Paul Glasziou.

  • Howick, Jeremy.
Date:
2011
  • Books

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Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, BMJ Books, 2011.

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xiv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The philosophy of evidence-based medicine -- What is EBM? -- What is good evidence for a clinical decision? -- 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 -- 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 -- Moving EBM forward.

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  • 9781405196673
  • 140519667X