Ethics and evidence-based medicine

Anaf, Gil M

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04537.x

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To the Editor: Comments made by Parker et al1 in response to Leeder and Rychetnik's article on evidence-based medicine (EBM)2 do not reflect the reality of the dilemmas clinicians face in practice — arguably, because of political misuse of the concept of EBM, which Leeder and Rychetnik warned against.

Correspondence: ganaf@ozemail.com.au

1. Parker MH, Del Mar CB, Glasziou PP. Ethics and evidence-based medicine [letter]. Med J Aust 2001; 176: 138. <eMJA full text>
2. Leeder SR, Rychetnik L. Ethics and evidence-based medicine. Med J Aust 2001; 175: 161-164.
3. Doidge N. In: Cameron PM, Ennis J, Deadman JC, editors. Standards and guidelines for the psychotherapies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
4. Doidge N, Simon B, Gillies LA, Ruskin R. Characteristics of psychoanalytic patients under a nationalised health plan: DSM-III-R diagnoses, previous treatment and childhood trauma. Am J Psych 1994; 151: 586-590.

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