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.



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Evidence-based medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethics.
Evidence-Based Medicine--ethics.
Ethics, Clinical.
Médecine factuelle--Aspect moral.
Éthique médicale.
Evidence-based practice.
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