Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
| Author | Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie |
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| Series | Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature |
| Subject | Medicine |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill |
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Publication date
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2015 |
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| Preceded by | 1st. edition, 2002. |
The Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature is a series of articles originally published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, later rewritten and compiled in a textbook, now in its third edition. The guides provide practical, clinician-friendly advice on all aspects of evidence-based medicine.
During the late 1970s a group of clinical epidemiologists at McMaster University including Dr. David Sackett prepared a series of articles to assist clinicians interpreting clinical research. These articles, introducing the term "critical appraisal", appeared in the Canadian Medical Association Journal beginning in 1981.
In 1990 Dr. Gordon Guyatt introduced the term "evidence-based medicine" to stress the role of rigorous, systematic evidence from clinical research in conjunction with patients’ values and preferences in clinical decision-making. A group of academic physicians subsequently formed the international Evidence-based Medicine Working Group and published a 1992 article announcing the "new paradigm" of evidence-based medicine.
The Evidence-based Medicine Working Group decided to build on the popular series in the Canadian Medical Association Journal by creating a more practical approach to applying the medical literature to clinical practice. Championed by Dr. Drummond Rennie, an editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the result was the Users' Guides. The guides originally consisted of 25 topics, covered in a series of 32 articles published in the Journal of the American Medical Association between 1993 and 2000, describing approaches to different types of medical questions and the study designs that may answer them.
The complete list is as follows:
Barratt, A. et al., 1999. Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: XVII. How to Use Guidelines and Recommendations About Screening. JAMA, 281(21), pp. 2029–2034. Available at: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/doi/10.1001/jama.281.21.2029
Bucher, H.C. et al., 1999. Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: XIX. Applying Clinical Trial Results; A. How to Use an Article Measuring the Effect of an Intervention on Surrogate End Points. JAMA, 282(8), pp. 771–778. Available at: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/doi/10.1001/jama.282.8.771.
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