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Arch Dermatol. 1998;134:1516-1517.

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WELCOME TO the inaugural issue of the ARCHIVES devoted to evidence-based medicine. This issue contains a wide variety of articles including meta-analyses, systematic reviews, a decision analysis, evidence-based practice guidelines, interpreting clinical signs and symptoms, and external validation of a prognostic model. As with evidence-based medicine in general, the majority of original studies are meta-analyses or systematic reviews of the therapy of diseases. In this issue, you will also find a synopsis of evidence-based medicine, an editorial by Straus and Sackett¹ on bringing evidence to the clinic, a description of the Cochrane Skin Group² (a group whose members prepare systematic reviews of dermatologic topics), and an Issues in Dermatology article³ urging a greater role for evidence-based medicine in dermatology.

Whereas the articles are generally accessible to the average reader, some of the articles contain terms that may not be immediately familiar. I have therefore included a glossary of terms that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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