At 11.00 26/02/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I seem to recall reading somewhere about a study which examined
the
>proprtion of psychiatric treatments, in [I think] an inpatient unit,
which
>could be said to be evidence-based. I also seem to recall that about
60% of
>treatments were deemed to be EBed.
There are two reports in psychiatry
- Geddes JR, Game D, Jenkins NE, Peterson LA, Pottinger GR, Sackett DL.
What proportion of primary psychiatric
interventions are based on evidence from randomised controlled trials?
Qual Health Care 1996;5:215-7.
(you cannot find in MEDLINE because the journal is not indexed)
- Summers, A.; Kehoe, R. F. Is psychiatric treatment evidence-based?
[Letter to the Editor]. Lancet 1996: 347 (8998): 409-410
Bests
Antonino Cartabellotta, MD
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