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15 September 2008 13:39

Case Studies in the Late 17th Century

Alan Lovell’s post on the uses of case studies really got me thinking and fishing around on the web - so often in health information we deal only in the higher levels of evidence that it’s easy not to think about the lower-level stuff, especially Read More...
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14 September 2008 14:55

Case Studies: Uses and Limitations

Earlier in the month, the health informaticist drew attention [1] to a post by marketeer Mike Tyldesley on the dangers of reliance on case studies to make a point [2]. Tyldesley argues that “case studies are bad at establishing truth” because: Read More...
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08 September 2008 21:30

Libraries and EBM - What’s the Impact?

According to the seminal BMJ editorial on the subject, “Evidence based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients,” while “The practice Read More...
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