[The importance of evidence-based medicine concepts for the clinical practitioner]

(A contribuição da medicina baseada em evidências para a introdução de novo conhecimento na prática clínica.)

Full Abstract

The acceptance or refusal of new therapies and technologies pose a formidable problem for the daily practice of the gastroenterologist. It is of utmost importance to adopt clear strategies to select the true evidences from the huge amount of new medical information. Gathering fundamental concepts of clinical epidemiology and medical informatics, evidence-based medicine (EBM) build up those strategies keeping the patient as the main objective of its application. The evidence-based medicine movement values the randomized controlled clinical trials, with adequate sample size and clear and valid outcomes. Facing conflicting results from those trials, evidence-based medicine values the systematic review and whenever possible its statistical counterpart, the meta-analysis. Evidence-based medicine provides valuable tools for the ethic and less subjective incorporation of new treatments and technologies in gastroenterology.

Author information

Author/s: Maluf-Filho, Fauze (F);

Affiliation: Programa de Pós-graduação em Cirurgia do Aparelho Digestivo, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: English Abstract; Journal Article

Journal: Arquivos de gastroenterologia (Arq Gastroenterol), published in Brazil. (Language: por)

Reference: -2009 Apr-Jun; vol 46 (issue 2) : pp 87-9

Dates: Created 2009/07/06; Completed 2009/10/15;

PMID: 19578606, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 10/15/2009)

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