TY  - JOUR
T1  - Orthopaedic Surgeons: Artists or Scientists?*
AU  - Schemitsch, Emil H.
AU  - Bhandari, Mohit
AU  - McKee, Michael D.
AU  - Zdero, Rad
AU  - TornettaIII, Paul
AU  - McGehee, J. Bartley
AU  - Hawkins, Richard J.
Y1  - 2009/05/01
N1  - 10.2106/JBJS.H.00036
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - 1264
EP  - 1273
VL  - 91
IS  - 5
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 10.2106/JBJS.H.00036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.H.00036
ER  -