Can we forget how to treat patients? Commentary on Tonelli (2006), Integrating evidence into clinical practice: an alternative to evidence‐based approaches. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 12, 248–256

The evidence‐based health care debate – 2006. Where are we now?

“…We regarded Tonelli’s thesis to be of such importance that we took the unusual step of commissioning not one, but rather 11 commentaries on this author’s reasoning, from a wide range of scholarly sources, spanning a large range of disciplines, both within, and applied to, Medicine, and it is this most important set of articles which follows Tonelli’s piece. The commentaries by Djulbegovic (2006), Miettinen (2006), Porta (2006), Lipman (2006), Tanenbaum (2006), Couto (2006), Upshur (2006), Loughlin (2006a), Malterud (2006), Gupta (2006) and Geanellos & Wilson (2006), make fascinating reading and to exercise editorial comment here on these editorially commissioned commentaries would be superfluous. Instead, we are content to advance these articles as essential reading in conjunction with Tonelli’s work (Tonelli 2006) and we remain excited by the way in which they have substantially developed the primary insights which Tonelli records, each commentary providing considerable scholarship in its own right.…”

Continuing the evidence‐based health care debate in 2006. The progress and price of EBM

“…In Volume 12, Part 3 of the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, we committed to the international medical literature a deposit of considerable scholarship on the evolution of the evidence‐based medicine (EBM) debate and on the nature of evidence for clinical practice (Borry et al . 2006; Couto 2006; Dewhurst 2006; Djulbegovic 2006; Dobre et al . 2006; Geanellos & Wilson 2006; Gupta 2006; Leung & Johnston 2006; Lipman 2006; Loughlin 2006a,b; Kemm 2006; Maier 2006; Malterud 2006; Miettinen 2006; Miles et al .…”

Project management can help to reduce costs and improve quality in health care services

“…I was studying project management for my MBA when I received an e‐mail from Professor Andrew Miles to comment [12] on an article, by M. R. Tonelli, proposing a casuistic approach to integrate evidence into clinical practice [3]. The idea to use project management to deliver medical services was inspired by reading Tonelli’s article because the casuistic approach that is proposed results from the some singularity that is present in projects.…”