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Damiano Abeni, MD, MPH
Michael Bigby, MD
Paolo Pasquini, MD, MPH
Moyses Szklo, MD, MPH, DrPh
Hywel Williams, MSc, PhD, FRCP

Arch Dermatol. 2000;136:1552-1553.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

The purpose of evidence-based dermatology is to alert clinicians to important advances in dermatology by selecting from the biomedical literature those original and review articles whose results are most likely to be true and useful. These articles are summarized in structured, value-added abstracts and commented on by knowledgeable clinicians.

The procedures we follow as we attempt to achieve this purpose are:

1. Detecting, using prestated criteria (see below), the best original and review articles on the cause, course, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, quality of care, or economics of disorders in dermatology;

2. Introducing these articles with declarative titles and summarizing them accurately in structured abstracts that describe their objectives, methods, results, and evidence-based conclusions;

3. Adding brief, highly expert commentaries to place each of these summaries in its proper clinical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Criteria for Review and Selection for Abstracting

General Criteria

Criteria for Studies of Treatment or Prevention

Criteria for Studies of Diagnosis

Criteria for Studies of Prognosis

Criteria for Studies of Causation

Criteria for Studies of Quality Improvement and Continuing Medical Education

Criteria for Studies of the Economics of Health Care Programs or Interventions

Criteria for Review Articles

Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata
Rome, Italy

Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Mass

Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata
Rome, Italy

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Md

Queens Medical Centre
Nottingham, England

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