Rational Decision Making in Psychiatry: Evidence-Based Psychiatry is Just the Start
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 171 (3) , 226-227
- https://doi.org/10.1192/s0007125000147695
Abstract
Geddes and Harrison make the case simply and persuasively for the value of a systematic approach to identifying and applying research evidence in clinical practice. No sensible psychiatrist, nurse or other therapist can justify a situation where patterns of practice are overly influenced by fashion, tradition, what the chief of staff happens to believe, or what the adverts claim, independent of the scientific basis, as represented by the results of valid experimental research.Keywords
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