Psychiatry faces epistemic problems because of its roughly dualist philosophy of mind. Theory and practice that implicitly or explicitly separate mind and body challenge psychiatry’s ability to describe, meet and treat its patients. This is particularly problematic because psych…
The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) framework was developed as an evidence based approach to translating research evidence to clinical practice through recommendations. GRADE has become widely adopted by key healthcare stakeholders, and …
Evidence based medicine (EBM) is defined as the use of best available evidence for decision making, and it has been the predominant paradigm in clinical decision making for the last 20 years. EBM requires evidence from multiple sources to be combined, as published results may no…
Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of premature death in the UK. Chest pain, the most common symptoms associated with this disease, accounts for 1% of all primary care consultations, 5% of visits to emergency departments, and up to 40% of emergency admissions to hospita…