scholarly journals Integrating the Principles of Evidence Based Medicine and Evidence Based Public Health: Impact on the Quality of Patient Care and Hospital Readmission Rates in Jordan

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad S. Alyahya ◽  
Heba H. Hijazi ◽  
Hussam A. Alshraideh ◽  
Mohammad Aser Alsharman ◽  
Rabah Al Abdi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Hospital Readmission ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Readmission Rates ◽  
Hospital Readmission Rates ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
Based Medicine

scholarly journals Publication by association: how the COVID-19 pandemic has shown relationships between authors and editorial board members in the field of infectious diseases

2021 ◽  
pp. bmjebm-2021-111670
Author(s):  
Clara Locher ◽  
David Moher ◽  
Ioana Alina Cristea ◽  
Florian Naudet
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Ripple Effect ◽  
New Type ◽  
Based Medicine

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the rush to scientific and political judgements on the merits of hydroxychloroquine was fuelled by dubious papers which may have been published because the authors were not independent from the practices of the journals in which they appeared. This example leads us to consider a new type of illegitimate publishing entity, ‘self-promotion journals’ which could be deployed to serve the instrumentalisation of productivity-based metrics, with a ripple effect on decisions about promotion, tenure and grant funding, but also on the quality of manuscripts that are disseminated to the medical community and form the foundation of evidence-based medicine.

Evidence-Based Decision-Making (Part 1): Origins and Evolution in the Health Sciences

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Bradt
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
Strength Of Evidence ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Evidence Based Decision Making

AbstractEvidence is defined as data on which a judgment or conclusion may be based. In the early 1990s, medical clinicians pioneered evidence-based decision-making. The discipline emerged as the use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine required the integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available, external clinical evidence from systematic research and the patient's unique values and circumstances. In this context, evidence acquired a hierarchy of strength based upon the method of data acquisition.Subsequently, evidence-based decision-making expanded throughout the allied health field. In public health, and particularly for populations in crisis, three major data-gathering tools now dominate: (1) rapid health assessments; (2) population based surveys; and (3) disease surveillance. Unfortunately, the strength of evidence obtained by these tools is not easily measured by the grading scales of evidence-based medicine. This is complicated by the many purposes for which evidence can be applied in public health—strategic decision-making, program implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. Different applications have different requirements for strength of evidence as well as different time frames for decision-making. Given the challenges of integrating data from multiple sources that are collected by different methods, public health experts have defined best available evidence as the use of all available sources used to provide relevant inputs for decision-making.

Med-on-@ix

2011 ◽  
pp. 974-994
Author(s):  
In-Sik Na ◽  
Max Skorning ◽  
Arnd T. May ◽  
Marie-Thérèse Schneiders ◽  
Michael Protogerakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Physician Shortage ◽  
Virtual Presence ◽  
Based Medicine

The aim of the project Med-on-@ix is to increase the quality of care for emergency patients by the operationalisation of rescue processes. The currently available technologies will be integrated into a new emergency telemedical service system. The aim is to capture all the necessary information comprising electrocardiogram, vital signs, clinical findings, images and necessary personal data of a patient at the emergency scene and transmit this data in real time to a centre of competence. This would enable a “virtual presence” on site of an Emergency Medical Services physician (EMS-physician, the German Notarzt). Thus, we can raise the quality of EMS in total and counter the growing problem of EMS-physician shortage by exploiting the existing medical resources. In addition, this system offers EMS-physicians and paramedics consultation from a centre of competence. Thereby referring to evidence-based medicine and ensuring the earliest possible information of the hospital.

scholarly journals The Square Curve Paradigm for Research in Alternative, Complementary, and Holistic Medicine: A Cost-Effective, Easy, and Scientifically Valid Design for Evidence-Based Medicine and Quality Improvement

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1117-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soren Ventegodt ◽  
Niels JØrgen Andersen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Quality Of Life Questionnaire ◽  
New Research ◽  
Based Medicine

In this paper we present a new research paradigm for alternative, complementary, and holistic medicine — a low-cost, effective, and scientifically valid design for evidence-based medicine. Our aim is to find the simplest, cheapest, and most practical way to collect data of sufficient quality and validity to determine: (1) which kinds of treatment give a clinically relevant improvement to quality of life, health, and/or functionality; (2) which groups of patients can be aided by alternative, complementary, or holistic medicine; and (3) which therapists have the competence to achieve the clinically relevant improvements. Our solution to the problem is that a positive change in quality of life must be immediate to be taken as caused by an intervention. We define “immediate” as within 1 month of the intervention. If we can demonstrate a positive result with a group of chronic patients (20 or more patients who have had their disease or state of suffering for 1 year or more), who can be significantly helped within 1 month, and the situation is still improved 1 year after, we find it scientifically evidenced that this cure or intervention has helped the patients. We call this characteristic curve a “square curve”. If a global, generic, quality-of-life questionnaire like QOL5 or, even better, a QOL-Health-Ability questionnaire (a quality-of-life questionnaire combined with a self-evaluated health and ability to function questionnaire) is administered to the patients before and after the intervention, it is possible to document the effect of an intervention to a cost of only a few thousand Euros/USD. A general acceptance of this new research design will solve the problem that there is not enough money in alternative, complementary, and holistic medicine to pay the normal cost of a biomedical Cochrane study. As financial problems must not hinder the vital research in nonbiomedical medicine, we ask the scientific community to accept this new research standard.

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