Dear Readers,
For more than a decade healthcare practitioners have been discussing the
merits of evidence-based medicine. But what is evidence? Most use this
term to mean the best available research evidence? And when one wants to
know how well a particular diagnostic, therapeutic or preventive
intervention works, the preferred type of research is using randomised
controlled trails (RCTs). The Canadian task force on preventive health
care, which formally introduced the concept of “levels of evidence”, has
assigned RCTs the highest level of evidence. This issue of Site News
explores the Introduction of Evidence-based Medicine and Ophthalmology,
Evidence Strategy, Evidence-Based Eye Care, Evidence Based Eye Care in
Practice, Featured Personality, and Featured Organization. Your feedback will help us improve the newsletter. Please send in your feedback at eyesite@aravind.orgThank You. Have a happy reading. Regards, Library Team |
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- EVIDENCE BASE TO SUPPORT THE UK VISION STRATEGY
The UK Vision Strategy launch will mark an important new initiative,
which should draw support and active co-operation from all involved in
eye care. In line with Vision 2020 – a global initiative, coordinated
jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International
Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) – the UK Vision Strategy
aims to promote the elimination of avoidable sight loss, and improvement
in the care, quality of life and opportunities of individuals and
families affected by sight problems
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- BRIDGING THE GAP TO EVIDENCE-BASED EYE CARE
An evidence-based practitioner as one who combines their individual
knowledge and expertise with the best available external clinical
evidence from systematic research.
- WHAT IS EVIDENCE-BASED OPHTHALMOLOGY? INTRODUCING THE COCHRANE EYES AND VISION GROUP
The modern approach is to teach doctors how to ask questions and
challenge established values.What is the evidence that one treatment is
better than another? How precise is a test in separating people affected
by a condition from those who are not?
- IS OPHTHALMOLOGY EVIDENCE BASED? A CLINICAL AUDIT OF THE EMERGENCY UNIT OF A REGIONAL EYE HOSPITAL
This study demonstrated that the majority of interventions in the
ophthalmic unit were evidence based and comparable to the experience of
other specialties.
- COMPENDIUM OF EVIDENCE-BASED EYE CARE
The Compendium of Evidence-Based Eye Care™ will be a collection of
clinical practice guidelines based on clinical evidence and expert
consensus to assist the clinician in decision-making about treating
specific diseases. The successful implementation of such clinical
guidelines should improve quality of care by decreasing inappropriate
variation and by expediting the application of effective advances into
everyday practice.
- EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE IN EYE CARE – RELEVANT RESEARCH TO INFORM PRACTICE
Evidence-based medicine aims to help clinicians and practitioners with
information on how to care for their patients by making use of the best
evidence available. This evidence invariably derived from deliberations
at conferences, meetings, or unpublished and published scientific
literature. “Hunches” or “gut feelings” or “expert opinions” have had an
informal burial with the birth of the more formal evidence based
medicine, which now influences clinical decision-making and practice.
- SEARCHING FOR EVIDENCE-BASED INFORMATION IN EYE CARE
Reliable websites and initiatives, which appraise and disseminate
up-to-date information to produce the best available evidence, are
extremely valuable.
- VALUE-BASED MEDICINE ANALYSIS: OPHTHALMIC COST-UTILITY ANALYSES
It is the philosophy of Evidence-Based Ophthalmology that the best
evidence based medicine should provide the foundation for knowledge,
which will allow practitioners to provide the highest quality of
medicine for our patients.
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- ARCHIE COCHRANE
Archibald Leman Cochrane, father of evidence based medicine. He
(1909–1988) was Scottish doctor. He advocated the use of reliable
evidence from randomised controlled trials in informing decisions about
healthcare. His advocacy of randomized controlled trials eventually led
to the development of the Cochrane Library database of systematic
reviews, the establishment of the UK.
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- COCHRANE COLLABORATION
The Cochrane Collaboration is an independent, non-profit,
non-governmental organization consisting of a group of more than 31,000
volunteers in more than 120 countries. The collaboration was formed to
organize medical research information in a systematic way to facilitate
the choices that health professionals, patients, policy makers and
others face in health interventions according to the principles of
evidence-based medicine.
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