Evidence-based Practice In Medicine And Health Care

by Meulen, Ruud ter; Biller-Andorno, Nikola; Lenk, Christian; Lie, Reidar K.

• ISBN13: 9783540222392
• ISBN10: 3540222391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-14
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) is feared to become a kind of cook-book medicine that has nothing to do with the traditional skills and ethics. This volume shows the contribution EBM makes and might make to medical practice and health policy. It describes as many viewpoints as possible with a focus on the ethical issues that are at stake in this process. It shows how EBM has developed from an internal medical issue to an instrument for health policy. It is the outcome of the European Project "Ethical Issues of Evidence Based Practice in Medicine and Health Care" and gives insight into the ethical background of the debate on the role of EBM in various areas of medicine, including clinical practice, medical education, medical research, health policy and medical sociology.

Table of Contents

The Ethical Debate on Evidence-based Medicine -- Introduction to the Volume	1	(8)
Ruud ter Meulen
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Christian Lenk
Reidar Lie
Regulating Health Care. The Development of Guidelines in Medical Practice and Health Policy	9	(8)
Christine Sepers
Ruud ter Meulen
Evidence-based Medicine and Power Shifts in Health Care Systems	17	(8)
Rein Vos
Rob Houtepen
Klasien Horstman
Beyond Legitimate Science: The Case for Policy-Related Science	25	(10)
Mariachiara Tallacchini
Teaching Evidence-based Medicine	35	(10)
Franz Porzsolt
Heike Leonhardt-Huober
Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Guidelines in Cardiology. Promoting Science, Practice, or Bureaucracy?	45	(16)
Frank Praetorius
Are Particular Patients Disadvantaged by EBM? Focus on Frail Elderly Patients	61	(4)
Fabrizio Fabris
Carla Scarafiotti
Barbara Maero
Evidence-based Medicine in Mental Health: Towards Better and Fairer Treatment?	65	(12)
Andreas Reis
Christian Lenk
Cristiane Reis-Streussnig
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Current Epistemological Problems in Evidence-based Medicine	77	(10)
Richard E. Ashcroft
Coordinating the Norms and Values of Medical Research, Medical Practice and Patient Worlds. The Ethics of Evidence-based Medicine in `Boundary Fields of Medicine'	87	(10)
Rein Vos
Dick Willems
Rob Houtepen
Research Ethics and Evidence-based Medicine	97	(8)
Reidar K. Lie
Clinical Evaluative Research: Which Patients Benefit, How and When? A Contribution to a European Discussion	105	(12)
Heiner Raspe
Defining a Proper Background for Discussing Evidence-based Medicine	117	(12)
Alessandro Liberati
Paolo Vineis
Evidence-based Medicine and Equity: The Exclusion of Disadvantaged Groups	129	(10)
Wendy A. Rogers
The Role of Formal Outcome Evaluations in Health Policy Making: A Normative Perspective	139	(12)
Ole F. Norheim
The Usefulness of Formal Outcome Evaluations in Health Policy Making: Looking for the Baby in the Bathwater	151	(12)
Erik Nord
Evidence-based Medicine and Managed Care	163	(10)
Marion Danis
Recommendations from the Evibase Project	173	(4)
Rob Houtepen
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Donna Dickenson
Paolo Vineis
Reidar Lie
Ruud ter Meulen
Notes on the Contributors	177	(2)
Index of Names	179	(2)
Index	181