Evidence-based practice in medicine and health care : a discussion of the ethical issues /
Ruud ter Meulen ... [et al.] (eds.).
- Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005.
- vi, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. The ethical debate on evidence-based medicine - introduction to the volume 2. Regulating health care. 3. The development of guidelines in medical practice and health policy 4. Evidence-based medicine and power shifts in health care systems 5. Beyond legitimate science: the case for policy-related science 6. Teaching evidence-based medicine 7. Evidence-based medicine and clinical guidelines in cardiology. 8. Promoting science, practice, or bureaucracy? 9. Are particular patients disadavantaged by EBM? 10. Focus on frail elderly patients 11. Evidence-based medicine in mental health: towards better and fairer treatment? 12. Current epistemological problems in evidence-based medicine 13. Coordinating the norms and values of medical research, medical practice and patient worlds. 14. The ethics of evidence-based medicine in 'boundary fields of medicine' 15. Research ethics and evidence-based medicine 16. Clinical evaluative research: which patients benefit, how and when? 17. A contribution to a European discussion 18. Defining a proper background for discussing evidence-based medicine 19. Evidence-based medicine and equity: the exclusion of disadvantaged groups 20. The role of formal outcome evaluations in health policy making: a normative perspective 21. The usefulness of formal outcome evaluations in health policy making: looking for the baby in the bathwater 22. Evidence-based medicine and managed care 23. Recommendations from the evibased project.