Sackett reminds us that evidence-based practice is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious
use of current “best evidence” in making decisions about delivering care to an individual (eg …

Evidence based medicine developed to link clinical practice and policy decisions to
evidence, so that effective treatments are maximized and ineffective treatments minimized …

Objective The objective is provide a framework concerning the minimum features of
reporting efficacy of treatment in the problem gambling field. Research to date has not used …

There is an urgent need for mental health professionals to develop effective treatments for
pathological gambling. A scientific meeting was held in Quebec City in June 2002 where 13 …

Abstract Gambling problems impact 0.2%–4.0% of the population, and research related to
treating gambling has burgeoned in the last decades. This article reviews trials for …

Attempts to identify empirically validated treatments have not been met with universal
approval. There exists a continuing debate as to whether clinicians and researchers should …

Problem gambling treatments continue to develop; however, the literature in this area is not
as vast as that for other addictions, most notably substance and alcohol misuse treatments …

• A broad-ranging and comprehensive systematic search was done to identify all available
literature• All identified articles were scanned to determine if they met the predefined …

The diagnosis of pathological gambling first appeared in the third edition of the American
Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 1980, and appears again in …

Current treatment for pathological gambling (PG) involves a number of different options,
including inpatient treatments, intensive outpatient, individual and group cognitive …