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Towards evidence-based medicine for paediatricians

Edited by Bob Phillips

Evidence-based On Call, Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Headington OX3 7JX, UK; bob.phillips@doctors.org.uk

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To give the best care to patients and families, paediatricians need to integrate the highest-quality scientific evidence with clinical expertise and the opinions of the family.¹Archimedes seeks to assist practising clinicians by providing "evidence-based" answers to common questions which are not at the forefront of research but are at the core of practice. In doing this, we are adapting a format that has been successfully developed by Kevin Macaway-Jones and the group at the Emergency Medicine Journal—"BestBets".

A word of warning. The topic summaries are not systematic reviews, although they are as exhaustive as a practising clinician can produce. They make no attempt to statistically aggregate the data, nor search the grey, unpublished literature. What Archimedes offers are practical, best evidence-based answers to practical, clinical questions.

The format of Archimedes may be familiar. A description of the clinical setting is followed by a structured clinical question. . . . [Full text of this article]