RT Journal
A1 Schemitsch, Emil H.
A1 Bhandari, Mohit
A1 McKee, Michael D.
A1 Zdero, Rad
A1 TornettaIII, Paul
A1 McGehee, J. Bartley
A1 Hawkins, Richard J.
T1 Orthopaedic Surgeons: Artists or Scientists?*
JF The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
JO The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
YR 2009
FD May 1
VO 91
IS 5
SP 1264
OP 1273
DO 10.2106/JBJS.H.00036
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.H.00036
AB 
The practice of evidence-based medicine has evolved and entered the rubric of most clinicians during the past several years. Gordon Guyatt, who first coined the term evidence-based medicine in 1990 at McMaster University, conceptualized the practice of evidence-based medicine as the integration of clinical expertise with the best available clinical evidence and patients' values1,2. The term best available evidence implies a hierarchy of evidence with highly valid and believable studies at the top and less valid evidence at the bottom2.