I was sad to hear that David Sackett died recently at the age of 80. He was arguably the father of evidence based medicine and the first chair of the Cochrane Collaboration steering group in 1993. He was appointed the first Professor of the newly founded Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in 1994, having come […]
There was an interesting editorial by Richard Smith and Drummond Rennie in the BMJ recently. The editorial is based on two interviews of pioneers in this field by Richard Smith, the former editor of the BMJ. In the first oral history he interviews Iain Chalmers, Muir Gray and David Sackett. They said that authors from a […]
At a meeting today I was introduced to a new website aimed at students interested in evidence-based medicine. Students 4 Best Evidence (S4BE for short) is written by an international panel of medical students, and includes articles and tutorials on EBM, resource reviews and articles on recent systematic review and trials. As would be expected […]