title: Evidence-based medicine and anaesthesia.
abstract: The author defines the concept of Evidence-Based Medicine as the collection of data from large trials and their analysis. In Anesthesia and medicine in general the wide heterogeneity of the patients can make the statistical results difficult to interpret and conclusions should be drawn carefully.
authors.affiliation: Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, BS10 5NB, UK.
authors.forename: N W
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: Goodman
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic