Evidence-based healthcare, clinical knowledge and the rise of personalised medicine

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 621-649

  Miles, Andrew ^a,b   Loughlin, Michael ^c   Polychronis, Andreas ^d  

^a Mount Pleasant Mail Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Clinical practice guidelines; Cochrane Collaboration; Complexity; Epistemology; Ethics; Evidence; Evidence based medicine; Expertise; Experts; Hierarchy of evidence; Implementation; Information; Knowledge; Literature searching; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICE; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; POSTMODERNISM; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCIENCE;

EID: 55349143224     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01094.x     Document Type: Editorial

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