This paper explores the nature of causation within the framework of evidence‐based
practice (EBP) for health care. The aims of the paper were first to define and evaluate how …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) makes use of explicit procedures for grading evidence for
causal claims. Normally, these procedures categorise evidence of correlation produced by …

Background: Evidence-based medicine and evidence hierarchies have been widely
adopted and have strongly influenced decision making across many fields, including clinical …

Hierarchies of evidence are an important and influential tool for appraising evidence in
medicine. In recent years, hierarchies have been formally adopted by organizations …

" Manipulating practices is the first ever collection of critical physiotherapy studies and
comes at a time of unprecedented change in the profession. Written as a collaboration …

Proponents of Evidence-based medicine (EBM) do not provide a clear role for basic science
in therapeutic decision making. Of what they do say about basic science, most of it is …

The article explores the shifting value of nursing work in the context of knowledge legitimacy
battles, policy, and nursing professionalization. We unpack the battle for legitimacy between …

In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S. Goldberg sets out to characterize the subjective
experience of pain and its undertreatment within the US medical establishment, and puts …

Introduction The quantity and quality of scientific research within physiotherapy has
unquestionably grown and matured over the last few decades, especially since the" formal" …

Professional practice guided by the best research evidence is a usually referred to as
evidence-based practice. The aim of the present paper is to describe five fundamental …