Medicine and evidence: knowledge and action in clinical practice

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2753.2007.00923.x

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Wiley InterScience

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volume 13 Issue 4, Pages 481 - 503

Published Online: 4 Aug 2007

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EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY

Medicine and evidence: knowledge and action in clinical practice

Andrew Miles MSc MPhil PhD, ¹ Michael Loughlin PhD ² and Andreas Polychronis MB PhD MRCP ³

¹ Professor of Public Health Sciences, National Director: UK Key Advances in Clinical Practice Series and Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Health and Social Care Research, Medical School at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas' Hospitals, King's College School of Medicine, University of London, UK
² Reader in Applied Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire, UK
³ Consultant Medical Oncologist, St James University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

Correspondence to Professor Andrew Miles
Professorial Unit for Public Health Education
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E-mail: andrew.miles@kcl.ac.uk

KEYWORDS

art and science of medicine • clinical judgement • clinical practice guidelines • clinical uncertainty • Cochrane Collaboration • decision making • emotion • evidence-based medicine • funding • knowledge • medical education • medical epistemology • meta-analyses • misrepresentation • public relations • systematic reviews