Evidence-based medicine guidelines

A handbook on the wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by the physician in everyday practice. The guidelines have two approaches: problem-based and disease-specific, and are linked to the best available evidence including Cochrane Reviews and DARE Abstracts. Other sources of evidence include clinical evidence, original articles and systematic reviews in clinical journals, abstracts in the Health Technology Assessment Database and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database, and clinical guidelines that describe evidence systematically. Where recommendations are given in the absence of high-quality evidence, they are based on textbooks, review articles, and expert opinion agreed upon by independent referees. Pulled together by hundreds of experts and compiled by the team of editors, EBMG also seeks to include guidelines where clinical evidence is incomplete or unavailable.