Evidence-based medicine: A clinical governance tool for rationalising or rationing health care?

Clinical Governance

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 308-313

  Samanta, Ash ^a   Samanta, Jo ^b  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical governance; Decision making; Evidence based practice; National Health Service

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 28444465177     PISSN: 14777274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14777270510629372     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. AHA (1992), AHA Management Advisory - Ethical Conduct for Healthcare Institutions, American Hospital Association, Chicago, IL, available at: www.hospitalconnect.com/aha/resour_center/resource/resource_ethics.html.
2. Asch, D.A. and Ubel, P.A. (1997), "Rationing by any other name", New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 336 No. 23, pp. 1668-1671.
3. Biller-Andorno N., Lenk, C. and Leititis, J. (2004), "Ethics, EBM and hospital management", Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 136-410.
4. Daniels, N. and Sabin, J. (1997), "Limits to health care: Fair procedures, democratic deliberation and the legitimacy problem for insurers", Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 303-350.
5. Dickenson, D. and Vineis, P. (2002), "Evidence based medicine and quality of care", Healthcare Annals, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 243-259.
6. DoH, (1998), A First Class Service: Quality in the New NHS, The Stationery Office, London.
7. Grol, R. (2001), "Improving the quality of medical care. Building bridges amongst professional pride, peer profit and patient satisfaction", JAMA, Vol. 284 No. 2, pp. 2578-2585.
8. Guyatt, G., Cook, D. and Haynes, B. (2004), "Evidence based medicine has come a long way", British Medical Journal, Vol. 329 No. 7473, pp. 990-991.
9. Haynes, R.B. (1991), "The origins and aspirations of ACP J Club", Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 1114 No. 1, p. A18.
10. Haynes, R.B., Mulero, C.D., Huth, E.J., Altman, D.G. and Gardner, M.J. (1990), "More informative abstracts revisited", Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 113 No. 1, pp. 69-76.
11. Klein, R. (1996), "The NHS and the new scientism: Solution or delusion?", Quarterly Journal Medicine, Vol. 89 No. 1, pp. 85-87.
12. Kmietowicz, Z. (2004), "NICE proposes to withdraw Alzheimer's drugs from NHS", British Medical Journal, Vol. 330 No. 7490, p. 495.
13. Lockwood, S. (2004), "'Evidence of me' in evidence based medicine?", British Medical Journal, Vol. 329 No. 7473, pp. 1033-1035.
14. Muir Gray, J.A. (2004), "Evidence-based policy making", British Medical Journal, Vol. 329 No. 7473, pp. 988-989.
15. Norheim, O.F. (1999), "Healthcare rationing - Are additional criteria needed for assessing evidence based clinical practice guidelines?", British Medical Journal, Vol. 319 No. 7222, pp. 1426-1429.
16. Norheim, O.F. (2002), "Clinical guidelines: Healthcare rationing and accountability for reasonableness", in Tingle, J. and Foster, C. (Eds), Clinical Guidelines: Law, Policy and Practice, Cavendish Press, London, pp. 161-180.
17. Saarni, S.I. and Gylling, H.A. (2004), "Evidence based medicine guidelines: A solution to rationing or politics disguised as science?", Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 171-175.
18. Sackett, D.L., Rosenberg, W.M.C., Muir Gray, J.A.M., Haynes, R.B. and Richardson, W.S. (1996), "Evidence based medicine: What it is and what it isn't", British Medical Journal, Vol. 312 No. 7023, pp. 71-73.
19. Samanta, A. and Samanta, J. (2003), "Legal considerations of clinical guidelines: Will NICE make a difference?", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 96 No. 3, pp. 133-138.
20. Samanta, A. and Samanta, J. (2004), "NICE guidelines in law - Clinical governance implications for Trusts", Clinical Governance: An International Journal, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 212-215.
21. Smith, R. (1999), "NICE: A panacea for the NHS?", British Medical Journal, Vol. 318 No. 7187, pp. 823-824.
22. Syrett, K. (2002), "NICE work? Rationing, review and the 'legitimacy problem' in the new NHS", Medical Law Review, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 1-27.
23. Syrett, K. (2004), "Impotence or importance? Judicial review in an era of explicit NHS rationing", Medical Law Review, Vol. 67 No. 2, pp. 289-321.
24. Tannenbaum, S.J. (1999), "Evidence and expertise: The challenge of the outcomes movement to medical professionalism", Academic Medicine, Vol. 74, pp. 757-763.
25. Tonelli, M.R. (1998), "The philosophical limits of evidence based medicine", Academic Medicine, Vol. 73, pp. 1234-1240.
26. Wailoo, A., Roberts, J., Brazier, J. and McCabe, C. (2004), "Efficiency, equity and NICE guidelines", British Medical Journal, Vol. 328 No. 7439, pp. 536-537.
27. Williams, J. and Yeo, M. (1988), "The ethics of decentralising healthcare priority setting in Canada", in Coulter, A. and Hamm, C. (Eds), The Global Challenge of Healthcare Rationing, The Open University Press, Maidenhead.