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.
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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:
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
