So Much for Evidence Based Medicine - Drug Makers Fake the Evidence

Sacramento, CA - You don’t have to look very far to get head-bangingly upset about the current state of medical and scientific research. Pfizer (maybe) hid evidence that Zoloft use by pregnant women caused heart defects in babies. GlaxoSmithKlein paid $3 billion in fines for a) generating a fake journal article saying Paxil was safe for kids b) paying doctors lavish speaker fees and using sham advisory boards to promote Wellbutrin for off-label use and c) failing to report that Avandia, a diabetes drug, could potentially cause heart problems. Merck, for its part, is currently being accused of lying about the efficacy of its mumps vaccine in order to maintain its market monopoly on the drug. Read More

TEACH Cards | UW Family Medicine and Community Health

TEACH Cards (Teaching Evidence-based medicine And Clinical topics in the Hospital) is an inpatient educational tool created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Family Medicine Residency Program in 2013. TEACH Cards allows for efficient 5-10 minute teaching sessions on busy inpatient medicine services and promotes two curricular goals: to enhance core clinical knowledge and to improve patient-centered evidence-based medicine skills. There are 50 different cards, each covering a different clinical topic. Topics were selected from the AAFP Recommended Curricular Guidelines for Family Practice Residents for Care of the Critically Ill Adult.

In a nutshell…evidence based medicine

What is evidence based medicine (EBM)?
Handoll and Smith [1] define EBM as “the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients” (p.251).
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Six proposals for EBM’s future

BMJ Blogs: BMJ Clinical Evidence Blog​ : Six proposals for EBM’s future

          

by Paul Glasziou Gordon Guyatt coined the term ‘Evidence-based Medicine’ (EBM) over 20 years ago, and it has had a remarkable global influence.

 

http://blogs.bmj.com/ce/2015/03/27/six-proposals-for-ebms-future/

Evidence-Based Medicine and the Newly Trained Physician

 

 Evidence-Based Medicine and the Newly Trained Physician: A Relationship in the Works

 

Despite evidence-based medicine's role as an incredible advancement in the history of medical care and patient management, there remains many challenges that young clinicians must face when attempting to implement EBM into their respective practices.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-secemsky/evidencebased-medicine-and-the-newly-trained-physician_b_7309544.html?ir=Healthy+Living

 

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