BACKGROUND: The use of review articles and meta-analysis has become an important part
of epidemiological research, mainly for reconciling previously conducted studies that have …

There is no agreement on “one way of knowing” in social work, and it is certainly not
scientific reasoning that is accepted, as can be seen by examining the literature in social …

There is a need to move from opinion-based education to evidence-based education. Best
evidence medical education (BEME) is the implementation, by teachers in their practice, of …

This systematic review aimed to collate randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of various
interventions used to treat tardive dyskinesia (TD) and, where appropriate, to combine the …

Methods and results We randomly selected 28 journals using stratified sampling from a total
of 100 Chinese journals of traditional Chinese medicine (4 national, 10 university, 10 …

Abstract With the recent Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) publication of their metastatic
prostate cancer clinical trial results, which concluded that orchiectomy and flutamide as …

For a very long time, evidence from research has contributed to clinical decision making.
Over the past 50 years, however, the nature of clinical research evidence has drastically …

We evaluated the effectiveness of prophylactic antibiotic administration before IUD insertion
in reducing the incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease, unscheduled visits back to the …

This paper proposes a research agenda on clinical interventions for youth with serious
emotional disturbances (SED). A National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National …

Introduction: Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been proposed as a new paradigm of
practising medicine. However, an unproductive polarisation between supporters and …