Dear All,
This is your chance to influence the quality of health care research!
I am pleased to announce that Oxford's Centre for EBM has launched a beta version of its evidence 'hierarchy':
http://www.cebm.net/index.aspx?o=5513
We hope it is an improved tool for answering relevant clinical questions.
We invite feedback (sent directly to jeremy.howick[at]dphpc.ox.ac.uk, not this Listserve!) until September 1st. Soon after we will replace the current levels, and also publish an extended explanatory document that will take your comments into consideration.
An ESSENTIAL new feature of the levels is that you CANNOT access it until you read the brief introduction. Our introduction both explains some essential features of the table, and insists that the hierarchy be interpreted as a heuristic tool rather than a universal guide to what counts as good evidence.
I look forward to your comments!
Best wishes,
Jeremy
Jeremy Howick, PhD
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Rosemary Rue Building
Old Road Campus
University of Oxford
Oxford OX3 7LF
United Kingdom
tel: +44 (0) 1865 289 363
fax: +44 (0) 1965 289 336
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