UDK: 616:614.25

BASIC PRINCIPLES AND METHODOLOGY IN EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE

V. I. Petrov

Кафедра клинической фармакологии ВолгГМУ

Abstract

The present lecture contains fundamentals of evidence based medicine; it provides a definition of its role in clinical practice. Wide-ranging material demonstrates that evidence based medicine cannot replace the art of healing and clinical thinking, but should serve for improvement of the quality and effectiveness of clinical practice.

Keywords

evidence based medicine, levels of evidence, graduation of recommendations, clinical recommendations, meta-analysis, clinical thinking.

Contacts

Петров Владимир Иванович – заслуженный деятель науки РФ, заслуженный врач РФ, академик РАМН, д. м. н., профессор, зав. кафедрой клинической фармакологии и интенсивной терапии, ректор ВолгГМУ, e-mail: post@volgmed.ru