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• QD: News Every Day--waiting for the weekend

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 504
  ACP Internists daily digest of news and events continues with this weekends expected vote on health care reform, H1N1 influenzas ascendance as the dominant strain, and Texas look at doctor-owned hospitals. Health care reform Everyone is gearing up for the expected weekend vote in the U.S. House on health care ...
  3 days ago

• The Needs Of The Few vs The Cost To The Many

  
  The KnifeMan — Authority: 115
  One of the problems with trying to adopt an evidence based approach, to anything, but in particular, to medical testing and treatment, is that population studies do not tell individual stories. The problem with using individual stories is that the plural of anecdote is not data, and association does not prove ...
  3 days ago

• EBM: it’s about evidence, not physicians or patients…

  
  (the) health informaticist — Authority: 115
  There’s some chatter on the evidence-based healthcare message board about the definition of “evidence based medicine” and I have to say I get a bit fed up sometimes as people always talk of the “holy trinity” of EBM, that of: use of evidence + physicians’ experience + patient choice. But I mean to say, ...
  1 week ago

• News, EBM, Library Resources: JAMA Evidence now available

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  For those interested in learning strategies for practicing evidence-based medicine, check out the latest digital subscription from UCHC Library: JAMA Evidence Image Credit: http://www.jamaevidence.com/ - All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 . Produced by American Medical Association ...
  1 week ago

• Wiser OWL learns to unravel doctor talk (The University of Manchester)

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  I saw a really good news bit today, actually two days old but thats how far behind I am on non-critical email: A good example of the scale of the problem facing medics and computer scientists is the NCI Cancer Thesaurus that has swollen from 20,000 medical terms in 2004 to over 50,000 terms today. As new terms are ...
  1 week ago

• Failing to Report Adverse Effects of Treatments

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  We have frequently advocated the evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach to improve the care of individual patients, and to improve health care quality at a reasonable cost for populations. Evidence-based medicine is not just medicine based on some sort of evidence. As Dr David Sackett, and colleagues wrote [Sackett ...
  1 week ago

• Failing to Report Adverse Effects of Treatments

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 497
  We have frequently advocated the evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach to improve the care of individual patients, and to improve health care quality at a reasonable cost for populations. Evidence-based medicine is not just medicine based on some sort of evidence. As Dr David Sackett, and colleagues wrote [Sackett ...
  1 week ago

• Who Should Sponsor Comparative Effectiveness Research?

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  We have tried to argue why comparative effectiveness research is a good idea. To cut and paste what I wrote in a previous post , read more
  2 weeks ago

• Baucus Bill Is a Cure Worse than the Disease

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  With Democratic support coalescing around Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mt.) health care reform proposal, passage of a comprehensive overhaul now appears more likely than ever.  Opponents had their summer of protests.  But, Democrats have shown a renewed sense of energy since discrediting Sarah Palin’s “death panels” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cognitive decline fastest in people with Alzheimer’s disease compared with other dementias

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  Cognitive decline fastest in people with Alzheimer’s disease compared with other dementias, Evidence-Based Mental Health 2009;12:105 Rob Butler   Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Ipswich, UK Abstract: Prognosis Question: Are there differences in demographic features, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Things that make me smile

  
  Stand and Deliver — Authority: 513
  I came across three things today that made me smile. First, NursingBirths post How one mom “Walked, moved around, and changed positions” to a successful hospital VBAC! This was written as part of Science & Sensibilitys Healthy Birth Blog Carnival #2 on moving, walking, and changing positions during labor. ...
  2 weeks ago

• ER Medicine: Fantasy, Meet Reality

  
  Better Health — Authority: 603
  EM at its finest: Ending a shift with a bang. I write a nice note trying to capture the essence of what I did and why I did it. Can’t write “decided to go big or go home” so I wrap it up in that nice, sterile and intentionally understated medicalese which makes it seem like the decisions were clear cut, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Cure Worse than the Disease

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 634
  With Democratic support coalescing around Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mt.) health care reform proposal, passage of a comprehensive overhaul now appears more likely than ever.  Opponents had their summer of protests.  But, Democrats have shown a renewed sense of energy since discrediting Sarah Palin’s “death panels” ...
  2 weeks ago

• This American Life Explains Part Of The Health Care Crisis

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 728
  Is it due to doctors, patients, lawyers or insurance companies? This American Life says, “Yes.” In an absolutely wonderful episode , they really highlight some key causes of the health care crisis and shatter some misconceptions. They even changed my mind about a few things. For example, it’s commonly ...
  2 weeks ago

• #Cochrane Colloquium 2009: Better Working Relationship between Cochrane and Guideline Developers

  
  Laika's MedLibLog — Authority: 510
  Last week I attended the annual Cochrane Colloquium in Singapore. I will summarize some of the meetings.Here is a summary of an interesting (parallel) special session: Creating a closer working relationship between Cochrane and Guideline Developers. This session was brought together as a partnership between the ...
  3 weeks ago

• QD: News Every Day--the H1N1 fist bump

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 504
  ACP Internists daily digest of news and events continues with ways to avoid spreading the flu (and how its making us rude), Michigans proposed doctor tax, and a review of evidence-based medicine. H1N1 influenza A feature story profiles how ways to avoid spreading disease are making society less civil (fist bumps ...
  3 weeks ago

• Canada 2010: What Should Global Health Expect?

  
  Eastwood Zhao dot COM — Authority: 116
  In an article from The Lancet (October 10 – October 16), Richard Horton discusses Canada’s G8 presidency in 2010 and urges Canadian policy makers to use this opportunity to “make a decisive impact on global health”.For South Africa in 2010, it is the World Cup. For Canada, it is the G8—on Jan 1, 2010, Canada ...
  3 weeks ago

• Have MRI, will do back surgery

  
  Schwitzer health news blog — Authority: 428
  From MedPageToday: Patients with low back pain are more likely to have surgery if they live in an area with more magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, researchers say. ...Yet studies show increased surgery rates dont necessarily improve outcomes, as MRIs...
  3 weeks ago

• QD: News Every Day on insurance coverage, primary care shortage and H1N1

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 504
  ACP Internists daily digest of internal medicine in the news continues with whos covering the uninsured, students weighing in on why they eschew primary care careers, and H1N1s widespread but less lethal path. Covering the uninsured While the number of uninsured people rose slightly from 2007 to 2008, more ...
  4 weeks ago

• Where are the mainstream news media on USPSTF coronary risk test story?

  
  Schwitzer health news blog — Authority: 428
  As I predicted yesterday, there has been nary a story on the US Preventive Services Task Forces new statement that the evidence isnt in yet on nine ways to look for signs of coronary heart disease in people without symptoms....
  4 weeks ago

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