Dear Colleagues,
I posted the following on the EBH list a little while ago. However,
the author did not receive any replies, although I am sure several were
posted. I have now added Peter Rabinowitz to the EBH list so would be
grateful if you would respond again.
As per our policy, I have not attached the manuscript. If you would
like a copy would you contact Peter Rabinowitz directly.
All good wishes,
Olive
"Dear Mrs. Goddard,
"I am a faculty member at the Yale University School of Medicine, and a
great admirer of the work of your Centre. I am a member of a group
engaged in a project funded by the National Library of Medicine to
assess the scientific evidence regarding the use of animals as
'sentinels' of human environmental health hazards. Our group of human
and animal health professionals are trying to critically determine the
strength of evidence linking animal and human health in a number of
instances. In recent years, there has been increasing discussion of
ways to bridge scientific gaps between animal health and human health
professionals. We are trying to build on Evidence Based Medicine
principales in this effort, although we realize that it is stretching
the concept a bit.
"At the suggestion of Mark Ebell, MD, a physician in the U.S. who has
helped develop the S.O.R.T. taxonomy for patient oriented evidence, we
have tried to adapt the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine's Levels of
Evidence to our task of comparing human and animal health
exposure-outcome relationships. The attached draft manuscript gives an
example of our approach
"I would be extremely grateful if one or more members of your Centre
could give us some feedback on what we are trying to do - does it seem
appropriate to try and use the Centre's Levels of Evidence as we are
doing in the attached ms? Is there another rating scheme that would fit
our needs better - or should we invent our own? Our preference is not
to reinvent the wheel, but we also want to respect the scope and purpose
of the toods you have developed.
"Any input to our process, no matter how critical, would be greatly
appreciated. For further background on our project, please see our
website http://canarydatabase.org
"Gratefully,
Peter Rabinowitz MD MPH
Associate Professor Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program
135 College Street, 3rd Floor
New Haven, CT 06510
Tel 203-785-5885
Fax 203-785-7391
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Olive Goddard
Centre and Editorial Manager
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Room 116
Institute of Health Sciences
Old Road Campus, Headington
Oxford, OX3 7LF
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