These e-learning sessions are dedicated to the memory of the early pioneers of
acupuncture education in the UK, including Denis Lawson-Wood, Sidney Rose-Neil,
Keith Lamont, Mary Austin, Royston Low, Jack Worsley and Dick van Buren
Taster Session 1 - How to Find Online Research Evidence: Section 2
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Dr. Sonia Williams speaking to her students in Nutritional Therapy at the Northern College of Acupuncture.
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Evidence-Based Nutrition
Dr. Sonia Williams
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Background of evidence base
Originally, opinion-based decision-making
Financial pressures
Patient expectations
Doing the 'right things right':
Improving good:harm ratio
Changing clinical practise
Promotion of research
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Evidence-based?
from Cochrane reviews
CAM (2004)
145 reviews:
38% likely beneficial
0.7% likely harmful
5% neither
57% insufficient evidence
Allopathic (2007)
1016 reviews:
44% likely beneficial
7% likely harmful
49% neither
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Definitions
Evidence-based medicine:
"The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients."
Sackett, et al., 1996
Evidence-based nutrition:
"The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best nutritional evidence in making decisions about the care of individual clients."
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Definitions
"The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with
the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research."
"Individual clinical expertise refers to 'the proficiency
and judgement that individual clinicians acquire through clinical experience and clinical practice."
It is not 'cookbook' medicine.
Editorial, BMJ: 312: 71-72; 1996
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