To determine whether hospital-based palliative care teams improve the process or
outcomes of care for patients and families at the end of life, a systematic literature review …

The recent completion of the first draft of the human genome sequence and advances in
technologies for genomic analysis are generating tremendous opportunities for …

Science is supposed to be cumulative, but scientists only rarely cumulate evidence
scientifically. This means that users of research evidence have to cope with a plethora of …

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses that obtain original research data on individual
participants enrolled in trials have been described as the gold standard of review. However …

The Cochrane Collaboration has established a centralized database of controlled trials and
other studies of health care interventions (called CENTRAL) that serves as the best …

Ideally, practice guidelines for cancer prevention should reflect the available empirical
evidence. Although the most persuasive arguments for the efficacy of an intervention come …

In this paper we set out to examine thearguments for and against the claim thatEvidence-
Based Medicine (EBM) will improve thequality of care. In particular, we examine thefollowing …

This review aimed to identify and appraise all systematic reviews of palliative care services,
to examine their findings in relation to methods used, and to explore whether further …

To the continuing consternation of many health scientists, their best research results, the
fruits of much caring toil and labour, often appear to remain unused by health clinicians and …

It is vital for nurses to publish in order to provide evidence of their practice and to increase
the knowledge base of their discipline. This paper is one of two that reports on an …