Dear Andrew Booth -
thank you so much for the wonderful compilation. It's a very important
issue. I was intrigued by the reference to the "evidence-based medicine"
of Dr Califf at Duke: I wonder how other listmembers feel about EBM having
as it's goal the "lowering of costs" - while I like the idea it seems like
as big a conflict of interest as the fee for service aspect of much medical
practice. Secondly, and very disturbingly, his flagship study on tpa vs.
strepto was sponsored by Genentech - is that EBM???
jeanne lenzer
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Subject: What proportion of practice is evidence based?
A much overdue update of my compendium on the percentage of
practice that is evidence based has just taken place.
Specialties now covered include:
General Medicine General Practice Anaethesia
Dermatology Haematology, Clinical Haematology, Malignant
Medicare procedures Oncology Paediatrics Paediatric
Surgery Psychiatry Surgery Surgery, Endoscopic
Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery,
Thoracic
with at least 6 new studies being added from the past year. The
location remains unchanged at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/percent.html
Thanks expecially to Scott Richardson for suggestions. If anyone
knows of any other studies please let me know at:
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Andrew
Andrew Booth BA MSc Dip Lib ALA
Director of Information Resources and
Senior Lecturer - Evidence Based Healthcare Information.
School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR)
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
SHEFFIELD
S1 4DA
Tel: 0114 222 5420 or 5214 Fax: 0114 272 4095
The author of Netting the Evidence:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting.html
and Trawling the Net:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/trawling.html
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