EDITORIAL
Clinical Alert: evidence-based medicine in Gut
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Many clinicians have attempted to practise evidence-based medicine (EBM) long before it came into vogue in the 1990s. My mentor, Tony Dawson, was a leading protagonist. His weekly departmental ward rounds were frequently brought to a temporary halt by a razor sharp comment, "don't tell what you think we should do, just give me the data." Many clinicians, however, have not taken such a critical approach to practice, hence the need to highlight the fundamental importance of the EBM message. I do not suggest that all clinical practice must be evidence-based and that experience counts for nought; indeed, in many instances the data are just not available. However, when data are available, I believe that they should form the basis of clinical decision making.
With this in mind, we are launching a new section,
Clinical Alert, and have enlisted the help
of the EBM team at McMaster University who
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