title: [The forgotten capitulation of evidence-based medicine].
abstract: In 1992, the Canadian physician Gordon Guyatt wrote an article that is generally regarded as the starting point of evidence-based medicine (EBM). He described the ideas behind the McMaster residency programme for 'evidence-based practitioners', founded by David Sackett. Eight years later, in 2000, Guyatt concluded that this programme was too ambitious. In a new publication he described most doctors as 'evidence-users'. This editorial marks the transition from an individual to a collective form of EBM, emphasizing the use of evidence-based guidelines. The starting point of this collective form of EBM is not the well-known 1992 paper, but the forgotten editorial in 2000, which was described by Guyatt's colleagues as the capitulation of EBM.
authors.affiliation: RIVM, Centrum Gezondheid en Maatschappij, Bilthoven.
authors.forename: Casper G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Schoemaker
authors.forename: Yvo M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Smulders
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000266:history* / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male