From the Evidence-Based health listserv, Paul Glasziou has started a list of:

Essential readings in EBM:


1. Straus SE, McAlister FA. Evidence-based medicine: a commentary on common criticisms. CMAJ. 2000 Oct 3;163(7):837-41.

2. Antman EM, Lau J, Kupelnick B, Mosteller F, Chalmers TC. A comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomized control trials and
recommendations of clinical experts. Treatments for myocardial infarction. JAMA. 1992 Jul 8;268(2):240-8.

3. McAlister FA, Clark HD, van Walraven C, Straus SE, Lawson FM, Moher D, Mulrow CD. The medical review article revisited: has the
science improved? Ann Intern Med. 1999 Dec 21;131(12):947-51.

4. Haynes RB. Of studies, syntheses, synopses, summaries, and systems: the "5S" evolution of information services for evidence-based
healthcare decisions. Evid Based Med. 2006 Dec;11(6):162-4.

5. McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. What do evidence-based secondary journals tell us about the publication of clinically important
articles in primary healthcare journals? BMC Med. 2004 Sep 6;2:33.

6. Chan AW, Hrobjartsson A, Haahr MT, Gotzsche PC, Altman DG. Empirical evidence for selective reporting of outcomes in randomized
trials: comparison of protocols to published articles. JAMA. 2004 May 26;291(20):2457-65.

7. Schulz KF, Chalmers I, Hayes RJ, Altman DG. Empirical evidence of bias. Dimensions of methodological quality associated with estimates of treatment effects in controlled trials. JAMA. 1995 Feb 1;273(5):408-12.

8. Glasziou P, Chalmers I, Rawlins M, McCulloch P. When are randomised trials unnecessary? Picking signal from noise. BMJ. 2007 Feb
17;334(7589):349-51.

9. Guyatt GH, Meade MO, Jaeschke RZ, Cook DJ, Haynes RB. Practitioners of evidence based care. Not all clinicians need to
appraise evidence from scratch but all need some skills. BMJ. 2000 Apr 8;320(7240):954-5.

10. Coomarasamy A, Khan KS What is the evidence that postgraduate teaching in evidence based medicine changes anything? A systematic review. 2004;329;1017 BMJ

11. Jackson R, Ameratunga S, Broad J, Connor J, Lethaby A, Robb G, Wells S, Glasziou P, Heneghan C. The GATE frame: critical appraisal with pictures. Evid Based Med. 2006 Apr;11(2):35-8.

12. Sackett DL, Straus SE. Finding and applying evidence during clinical rounds: the "evidence cart". JAMA. 1998 Oct 21;280(15):1336-8.

13. Straus SE, Ball C, Balcombe N, Sheldon J, McAlister FA. Teaching evidence-based medicine skills can change practice in a community
hospital. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Apr;20(4):340-3.

Suggested additions:

14. Chalmers, I, (2003). Trying to do more good than harm in policy and practice: the role of rigorous, transparent, up-to-date evaluations. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 589, Sept, 22-40.

15. Healy, D. The antidepressant tale: figures signifying nothing? Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2006), vol. 12, 320–328.