tailieunhanh - Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care: Meeting Summary

The creative and innovative ethic of American medicine is legend and has contributed fundamentally to the breadth, depth, and pace of advances in our capacity for diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury. Indeed, the number of new pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, and healthcare services introduced into American healthcare settings and marketplaces substantially exceeds the capacity to know the circumstances under which a particular intervention is best applied. The consequences of this gap between assessment capacity and available services include increasing uncertainty about what constitutes “best care,” a steady expansion in the national and personal cost of medical care, and a substantial growth in concern and distrust among physicians and. | 2007 IOM ANNUAL MEETING SUMMARY EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF HEALTH CARE Mark B. McClellan J. Michael McGinnis Elizabeth G. Nabel and LeighAnne M. Olsen INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS Washington . THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street . Washington DC 20001 International Standard Book Number 13 978-0-309-11369-4 International Standard Book Number 10 0-309-11369-5 Additional copies of this report are available from the National Academies Press 500 Fifth Street . Lockbox 285 Washington DC 20055 800 624-6242 or 202 334-3313 in the Washington metropolitan area Internet http . For more information about the Institute of Medicine visit the IOM home page at . Copyright 2008 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America The serpent has been a symbol of long life healing and knowledge among almost all cultures and religions since the beginning of recorded history. The serpent adopted as a logotype by the Institute of Medicine is a relief carving from ancient Greece now held by the Staatliche Museen in Berlin. Suggested citation IOM Institute of Medicine . 2008. Evidence-based medicine and the changing nature of health care 2007 IOM annual meeting summary. Washington DC The National Academies .