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Evidence‐based medicine and everyday reality
Author(s) -
Cox Ken
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143627.x
Subject(s) - everyday life , evidence based medicine , psychology , clinical judgment , cognitive psychology , epistemology , data science , computer science , medicine , alternative medicine , philosophy , medical physics , pathology
Everyday‐life judgements are “fast and frugal” and not numerically rigorous. Clinicians do not (yet) incorporate numerical evidence into their “thinking on the run”. Evidence‐based medicine is important in generating accurate data, but the existence of data doesn't ensure their use. Only “real time” observation of clinical events and the thinking that shaped them can provide plausible data on how external evidence and internal experience do, or don't, meld within clinical care.