Effectiveness and Efficiency

TL;DR: The aim of this review is to apply EBM to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) therapy and several prospective randomized studies demonstrated that positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), lung-protective ventilation and spontaneous breathing during controlled mechanical ventilation is recommendable.

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Unleashing the power of e-Health requires the development of an evidence base for interventions that improve care.

Simon de Lusignan

- 19 Feb 2015 -

Journal of innovation in health informat...

TL;DR: The two leading articles in this issue of Informatics in Primary Care describe the importance of creating the right evidence base if the authors are to Unleash the Power of e-Health.

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Randomized controlled trials to evaluate impact: Their challenges and policy implications for medicine, education, and international development

Rahel Christine Kahlert

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a more nuanced account of the role of the randomized controlled trial (RCT) in medical history, and find that the RCT model has been widely used in education and international development.

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Entre padronização e discricionariedade : reconfigurações do conhecimento médico na medicina geral e familiar

Hélder Raposo

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Getting to grips with Archie Cochrane's agenda.

Iain Chalmers, +2 more

- 03 Oct 1992 -

BMJ

TL;DR: The results quantify a trigger leading to rapid, drought-induced die-off of overstory woody plants at subcontinental scale and highlight the potential for such die-offs to be more severe and extensive for future global-change-type drought under warmer conditions.

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