Open Directory - Health: Medicine: Evidence Based Medicine: Opposing Views
- A critique of evidence-based medicine, especially its EBM-grading construct, as scientifically unsound. Part of a Point/Counterpoint exchange on EBM from the Chest journal. - A critical evaluation of the oft-cited criticism of evidence-based medicine as constraining clinical freedom and potentially compromising patient welfare. Published: 03/01/05. [Requires registration.] - A defense of evidence-based medicine as an evolving and highly individualized, patient-centered approach to clinical decision making. Part of a Point/Counterpoint exchange on EBM from the Chest journal. - Argues that there is insufficient proof that the EBM model can be adapted to fit psychiatry. (April 1, 2008). - The article that initiated the critical controversy surrounding the claim that EBM represents an exclusionary "regime of power". [PDF] (April 01, 2006) - Argues and discusses the reasons for the limited relevance of systematic reviews to frontline health care workers in developing countries. (May 31, 2005) - Brief review of five major types of criticisms of EBM. [PDF] (June 30, 2004) - An examination and assessment of a decade of criticisms of EBM. [PDF] (January 01, 2004) - A review of criticisms of EBM as being founded on a lack of clarity and precision by EBM's own proponents. [PDF] (July 21, 2003) - A critique of conventional randomized controlled trials methodology, and an attempt to incorporate more complex interventions via a new 'pragmatic RCT'. (August 01, 2002) - A psychiatrist's critique that over-emphasis on evidence-based medicine oversimplifies the complex and interpersonal nature of clinical care. (January 01, 2002) - Review of the most commonly leveled charges against, and misperceptions about, evidence-based medicine, with proposed solutions to real limitations. (October 03, 2000)
