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"Evidence-Based Dermatology" Section in the Archives of Dermatology
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.
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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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