Evidence-based patient choice. Issue 2 (1st April 1999)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hope, Tony
• Is Part Of: Evidence-based medicine. Volume 4:Issue 2(1999)
• Page Start: 38
• Page End: 40
• Publication Date: 1999-04-01
• Subjects: Evidence-based medicine -- Periodicals; 616
• DOI: 10.1136/ebm.1999.4.38
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-5524

Abstract

Abstract : Evidence-based medicine and patientcentred care are natural bedfellows. Muir Gray coined the term "evidencebased patient choice" (1); Entwistle and colleagues (2) have written about evidence-informed patient choice. Both of these modern movements have developed as a critical response to what is perceived to be the excessive authority given in traditional medicine to doctors and other health professionals. Evidence-based medicine emphasises the point that it is not the authority of the doctor that justifies a particular clinical intervention but the evidence for that intervention's effectiveness.