Evidence based medicine, whose philosophical origins extend back to mid-19th century
Paris and earlier, remains a hot topic for clinicians, public health practitioners, purchasers, …

The principal dilemma of the internet is that, while its anarchic nature is desirable for fostering
open debate without censorship, this raises questions about the quality of information …

Screening programmes involve the systematic offer of testing for populations or groups of
apparently healthy people to identify individuals who may be at future risk of a particular …

How eliminating “risk illiteracy” among doctors and patients will lead to better health care
decision making. Contrary to popular opinion, one of the main problems in providing uniformly …

Creating postmodern health care People modernise health care in an attempt to absorb the
effect of rising need and demand resulting from demographic, technical, and social changes …

… Correspondence to: JAM Gray muir.gray{at}medknox.net … Muir Gray, Julietta Patnick,
and Roger Blanks show how experience with the UK breast screening programme can help …

Since you know there is more than 1 randomized controlled trial (RCT), you look first for a
systematic review. Your MEDLINE search (using the terms fecal occult blood test and …

… JA Muir Gray, programme director, UK National Screening Committee (muir.gray{at}ihs.ox.ac.uk) …

More often misquoted than quoted, Thomas Kuhn coined the term “paradigm shift”, which is
now so widely used in discussions on health care. The technologies that make previously …

ALTHOUGH screening is often delivered by clinicians, screening programmes are public
health services that need to be managed at the level of a large population to monitor quality …