Experts write manifesto for evidence-based medicine

Experts write manifesto for evidence-based medicine Experts have produced their ‘manifesto for evidence-based medicine’ in response to what they say is the systematic bias, wastage, error, and fraud in the research that underpins patient care. They lament the questionable integrity of much of today’s evidence, the lack of research answering questions that matter to patients, and the lack of relevant evidence to inform patients’ and clinicians’ shared decision-making, and have called for a series of measures to help rectify the situation.

The authors of the editorial, in The BMJ, from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford and The BMJ itself, argue that too many research studies are poorly designed or executed, and too much of the resulting research evidence is withheld or disseminated piecemeal. OnMedica