This is useful list (which I will be using to update my own list of
essential reading).
I would like to suggest:
The antidepressant tale: figures signifying nothing?
David Healy
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2006), vol. 12, 320–328.
Healy provides good reasons to treat with skepticism the argument "Because
the results are not statistically significant, there is no usable evidence
of effect", especially when the effect is a significant harm.
Michael Power
Clinical Knowledge Author, Guideline Developer and Informatician
Clinical Knowledge Summaries Service www.cks.library.nhs.uk
On Wed, 2 May 2007 08:46:57 +0100, Paul Glasziou
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>Dear All,
>I am looking for suggestions please. I am trying to put together a
>reading list of "essential" readings in EBM. These are ones beyond the
>primer stage, aimed at postgraduates interested in an in-depth
>understanding of EBM.
>So do you have key articles you can suggest?
>I have appended my tentative list below (but you might like to think
>about your own first),
>Many thanks
>Paul Glasziou
>
>Essential Readings in EBM
>1. Straus SE, McAlister FA. Evidence-based medicine: a commentary on
>common criticisms. CMAJ. 2000 Oct 3;163(7):837-41.
>2. Antman EM, Lau J, Kupelnick B, Mosteller F, Chalmers TC. A
>comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomized control trials and
>recommendations of clinical experts. Treatments for myocardial
>infarction. JAMA. 1992 Jul 8;268(2):240-8.
>3. McAlister FA, Clark HD, van Walraven C, Straus SE, Lawson FM,
>Moher D, Mulrow CD. The medical review article revisited: has the
>science improved? Ann Intern Med. 1999 Dec 21;131(12):947-51.
>4. Haynes RB. Of studies, syntheses, synopses, summaries, and
>systems: the "5S" evolution of information services for evidence-based
>healthcare decisions. Evid Based Med. 2006 Dec;11(6):162-4.
>5. McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. What do evidence-based
>secondary journals tell us about the publication of clinically important
>articles in primary healthcare journals? BMC Med. 2004 Sep 6;2:33.
>6. Chan AW, Hrobjartsson A, Haahr MT, Gotzsche PC, Altman DG.
>Empirical evidence for selective reporting of outcomes in randomized
>trials: comparison of protocols to published articles. JAMA. 2004 May
>26;291(20):2457-65.
>7. Schulz KF, Chalmers I, Hayes RJ, Altman DG. Empirical evidence of
>bias. Dimensions of methodological quality associated with estimates of
>treatment effects in controlled trials. JAMA. 1995 Feb 1;273(5):408-12.
>8. Glasziou P, Chalmers I, Rawlins M, McCulloch P. When are
>randomised trials unnecessary? Picking signal from noise. BMJ. 2007 Feb
>17;334(7589):349-51.
>9. Guyatt GH, Meade MO, Jaeschke RZ, Cook DJ, Haynes RB.
>Practitioners of evidence based care. Not all clinicians need to
>appraise evidence from scratch but all need some skills. BMJ. 2000 Apr
>8;320(7240):954-5.
>10. Coomarasamy A, Khan KS What is the evidence that postgraduate
>teaching in evidence based medicine changes anything? A systematic
>review. 2004;329;1017 BMJ
>11. Jackson R, Ameratunga S, Broad J, Connor J, Lethaby A, Robb G,
>Wells S, Glasziou P, Heneghan C. The GATE frame: critical appraisal with
>pictures. Evid Based Med. 2006 Apr;11(2):35-8.
>12. Sackett DL, Straus SE. Finding and applying evidence during
>clinical rounds: the "evidence cart". JAMA. 1998 Oct 21;280(15):1336-8.
>13. Straus SE, Ball C, Balcombe N, Sheldon J, McAlister FA. Teaching
>evidence-based medicine skills can change practice in a community
>hospital. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Apr;20(4):340-3.
>
>--
>Paul Glasziou
>Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine,
>Department of Primary Health Care,
>University of Oxford www.cebm.net
>ph +44-1865-289298 fax +44-1865-227036
>(please note new phone number)
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