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Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Patient management is the central clinical task of medical care. Until the 1970s, there was no generally accepted method of ensuring a scientific, critical approach to clinical decision making. And while traditional clinical authority was under attack, there was increasing concern about the way in which doctors made decisions about patient care. In this book, Jeanne Daly traces the origins, essential features, and achievements of evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology over the past few decades. Drawing largely on interviews with key players, she offers unique insights into the ways that practitioners of evidence-based medicine set out to generate scientific knowledge about patient care and how, in the process, they reshaped the way medicine is practiced and administered.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-05-11
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCalifornia/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
Antal sidor290
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520243163

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Jeanne Daly is co-editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health and Adjunct Professor in the Mother & Child Health Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She is the coauthor of Technologies and Health: Critical Compromises (2001), The Public Health Researcher: A Methodological Guide (1997), Reinterpreting Menopause: Cultural and Philosophical Issues (1997), Ethical Intersections: Health Research, Methods, and Researcher Responsibility (1996), and Researching Health Care: Designs, Dilemmas, and Disciplines (1992).

Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank By Way of Background Note on Method 1. Introduction: Evidence, Science, and Certainty 2. Clinical Epidemiology: The Intellectual Heritage 3. The Discipline of Clinical Epidemiology 4. The Rise of Evidence-Based Medicine 5. An Appraisal, with Critique 6. The British Intellectual Heritage 7. The Cochrane Collaboration 8. The Cochrane Collaboration in South Africa 9. Achievements and Limitations 10. The Continuing Search for a Science of Clinical Care Bibliography Index

"This book is an engaging account of the evolution of evidence-based medicine, and an incisive analysis of this approach to improving healthcare. Daly's critique is a refreshing and scholarly contrast with the erection and demolition of straw men by many critics of EBM, as she poses important challenges to practitioners, policy makers, patients, researchers and others who wish to play their part in improving clinical care." - Sir Iain Chalmers, Editor at the James Lind Library"