Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care / Jeanne Daly; ed. by Jeanne Daly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daly, Jeanne, Author.

Contributor:

Daly, Jeanne, Editor.

Series:

California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2005]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Patient management is the central clinical task of medical care. Until the 1970s, there was no generally accepted method of ensuring a scientific, critical approach to clinical decision making. And while traditional clinical authority was under attack, there was increasing concern about the way in which doctors made decisions about patient care. In this book, Jeanne Daly traces the origins, essential features, and achievements of evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology over the past few decades. Drawing largely on interviews with key players, she offers unique insights into the ways that practitioners of evidence-based medicine set out to generate scientific knowledge about patient care and how, in the process, they reshaped the way medicine is practiced and administered.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

By Way of Background

Note on Method

1. Introduction: Evidence, Science, and Certainty

2. Clinical Epidemiology: The Intellectual Heritage

3. The Discipline of Clinical Epidemiology

4. The Rise of Evidence-Based Medicine

5. An Appraisal, with Critique

6. The British Intellectual Heritage

7. The Cochrane Collaboration

8. The Cochrane Collaboration in South Africa

9. Achievements and Limitations

10. The Continuing Search for a Science of Clinical Care

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9780520931442

OCLC:

1175671695