Evidence-based medicine/Related Articles

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Health [r]: The default state of an organism under optimal conditions, a state characterized by the absence of disease and by the slowest natural rate of senescing. ^[e]
Health science [r]: The helping professions that use applied science to improve health and to treat disease. ^[e]
Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]

Teaching evidence-based medicine [r]: Conscientious education of medical personnel with current best clinical evidence, in making decisions about the care of individual patients. ^[e]
Evidence-based individual decision making [r]: evidence-based medicine (EBM) as practiced by the individual health care provider and an individual patient. ^[e]
Clinical decision support system [r]: Interactive computer programs that directly assist physicians and other health professionals with decision-making tasks. ^[e]
Marcia Angell [r]: An American physician at Harvard, author, and first female editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. ^[e]
Electronic health record [r]: Longitudinal collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations ^[e]
Electronic medical record [r]: A digital form of medical (hospital or clinic) record. ^[e]
Clinical data warehouse [r]: A facility that houses all electronic data collected at a clinical center. ^[e]
Odds ratio [r]: Ratio of the relative incidence (odds) of a target disorder in an experimental group relative to the relative incidence in a control group; reflects how the risk of having a particular disorder is influenced by the treatment (odds ratio of 1 means that there is no benefit of treatment compared to the control group). ^[e]