A ‘reluctant’ critical review: ‘Manual for evidence‐based clinical practice (2015)’

Abstract

The Manual has several clinical pearls but readers should also be aware of shortcomings.

From EBM to PCH: always predictable, now inexorable. Editorial Introduction to the 2015 Evidence Based Medicine Thematic Issue of the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

“…Wyer and Silva, in their characteristically incisive manner, analyse one of the four pieces in the BioMed Central Series to which I have already referred above . The second is the Essay Review of the so‐called EBM Bible, by Dr. Shashi Seshia: ‘A “reluctant” Critical Review: “Manual for Evidence based Clinical Practice (2015) . Dr. Seshia systematically addresses the ongoing difficulties of the EBM Movement in shifting away from its historical biomedical reductionism, offering much wisdom on this and on much else in the process.…”