Challenging Tradition Producing Innovation——David Eddy_Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Authors：

CHEN Yaolong ¹ , LIU Tinglan ² , MENG Yue ¹ ,  LI Youping ¹

1. Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China2. Department of Foreign Languages, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;

Corresponding author：

LI Youping, Email: yzmylab@hotmail.com

Keywords：

Biography; David Eddy; Evidence-based medicine

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David Eddy, one of the founders of evidence-based medicine, is a famous American expert in evidence-based medicine. He was first author on a key article in JAMA in 1990 and coined the term "evidence-based". He made great contributions in medical decision making, applied mathematics, health economics and devoted himself to the establishment and dissemination of evidence-based guidelines. In this article, the process of his striving and academic research is introduced and his unique insight into and new interpretion of evidence-based medicine are elaborated.

Citation： CHEN Yaolong,LIU Tinglan,MENG Yue,LI Youping. Challenging Tradition Producing Innovation——David Eddy. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2007, 07(9): 677-680. doi: Copy

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1. Dong BR, Yue JR, Xu Y. The princi ples of developing evidence-based guidel ine. Chin J Evid-Based Med, 2006, 6(2): 80-83.
2. Medical Guesswork. From heart surgery to prostate care, the health industry knows little about which common treatments really. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_22/b3986001.htm.
3. http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,1455039,00.asp.
4. Eddy DM. A methodology for evaluating breast cancer screening programs. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, November, 1976.
5. Eddy DM. Practice pol icies: where do they come from? JAMA, 1990, 263(9): 1265-1275.
6. How much do we know? http://www.clinicalevidence.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp.
7. 董碧蓉, 岳冀蓉, 徐英. 制定循证指南的原则. 中国循证医学杂志, 2006, 6(2): 80-83.
8. Hibble A, Kanka D, Pencheon D, et al. Guidel ines in general practice: the new tower of babel? BMJ, 1998, 317: 862-863.
9. Eddy DM. ACS guidel ines for the cancer-related checkup. Recommendations and rationale. Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 1980, 30(1): 193-240.
10. Eddy D. Practice pol icies: guidel ines for methods. JAMA, 1990, 263(13): 1839-1841.
11. Eddy D. Evidence-based medicine: a unified approach. Health Affairs, 2005, 24(1): 9-17.
12. Cooper J, Claudie T, Pierce M, et al. Establ ishing guidelines for evidence-based diabetes care throughout europe. http://www.pcdeurope.org/view/7.
13. Schlessinger L, Eddy DM. Archimedes: a new model for simulating health care systems—the mathematical formulation. J Biomed Inform, 2002, 35(1): 37-50.

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