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Medicine
in Sherlock Holmes’ Footsteps
Evidence-Based
Medicine
in Sherlock Holmes’ Footsteps
Foreword, vi
Introduction, ix
S T E P 2 Information Search, 19
References, 78
Internet-Based Spreadsheets, 81
List of Illustrations, 83
Glossary, 85
Index, 89
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Foreword
When I discuss EBM with patients or the public, they are always surprised to
find this is not something that doctors are not already routinely doing.
Surely medical decisions with such important consequences are informed by
the best available research evidence? Patients may doubt a doctor's diagnos-
tic or procedural skills, but they rarely question a doctor's ability to access
knowledge. We know the reality is different. As Dr Nordenstrom points out:
I would hope that all health care students everywhere now get a ground-
ing in the principles of evidence-based practice. However, I suspect that is
still not so – many medical schools I know spend more time on the inser-
tions of muscles or the Kreb's cycle than on the principles of using medical
research at the bedside. And even when it is taught it can often be seen as
boring. This lively little book makes EBM both appealing and simple. The
appeal to detective work as an analogy and the intimate style make the read-
ing very accessible. And yet, despite its informal style and brevity, it manages
to convey many of the essentials of EBM. Students could read this in a single
evening, and would be much better armed to find and appraise the research
literature relevant to the care of patients.
I hope this short book will stimulate you to read more widely about EBM,
but if not you will have gotten the essentials. I am sure you will remember
the FIRE by PICO matrix and ask better questions and perform better
vi
Foreword vii
searches. Of course, the book covers just the basic scales of EBM, and you
will need to practice, experiment and improvise to embed these skills as part
of your lifelong learning about medicine. And you may just hear Holmes
leaning over your shoulder saying "Education never ends, Watson. It is a
series of lessons with the greatest for the last."
Paul Glasziou
Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
University of Oxford
May 2006
viii Foreword
ix
x Introduction
The increase in available information will continue and the ability to handle
new information in general and new scientific data in particular will be a
necessary component of the lifelong learning process. Skills in searching,
evaluating and implementing are more important today than ever before.
When should I change my processing routines? What new developments
should be accepted? And which should be rejected?
The practice of EBM has similarities to detective work. In both instances,
the initial stage consists in being confronted with a “case” in which certain
events have preceded the current situation. In the detective work situation, a
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Introduction xi
crime has been committed, there is a crime scene, there is a victim and a per-
petrator, and events have occurred that need to be analysed. In the medical
case, there is a patient who presents with certain symptoms and the task at
hand is to make a diagnosis based on these symptoms and try to establish
what preceded the onset of the illness. Both cases require a line of reasoning
involving a temporal review and analysis, the so-called “backward reasoning”,
in order to establish causal relationships. This type of reasoning backwards in
time constitutes an important principle in both health care work and problem-
based learning (PBL). This pedagogic strategy was developed by Barrows
towards the end of the 1970s at McMaster University in Canada, and it is no
coincidence that the EBM concept was later developed at the same university.
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous private detective in history. His cre-
ator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was a physician himself. The prototype of
Sherlock Holmes was Dr Joseph Bell, one of Doyle’s teachers at Edinburgh
University. Doyle has reported how Bell usually tried to diagnose his patients
at the very first consultation, even before they had uttered a single word. He is
said to have been able to recount the symptoms of his patients, give an
account of their medical history and relate details of their daily life with an
amazing degree of accuracy. Sherlock Holmes’ constant companion, Dr
Watson, was a practising physician and Doyle’s alter ego. Thus the two detec-
tives’ technique and modus operandi have, in part, a medical background.
Conan Doyle once stated, “I thought I would try my hand at writing a story
where the hero would treat crime as Dr Bell treated disease.” According to leg-
end, Sherlock Holmes was born on 6 January 1854 and since no obituary has
appeared as yet in The Times, one must assume that he is still alive and in
good health despite his age of more than 150 years. Unconfirmed reports
assert that he is now active as a bee-cultivator in Sussex.
There are a large number of textbooks on EBM. Many of them are of high
quality but have the disadvantage of being too comprehensive to provide a
good initial foundation for the subject. They overshoot the mark as far as
most students and health care professionals are concerned. It is against this
background that this handbook on EBM came about. It has been written
primarily for medical and other health care students, but also for persons
already working in health care.
This handbook is organized in such a way that the reader is led step by
step through a process starting with a patient’s medical history and leading,
via information searches and critical appraisal, to a treatment recommenda-
tion. The handbook lays no claim to being all-embracing but rather is aimed
at giving an introduction to EBM. A list of publications for further study is
xii Introduction
presented at the end of the manual. This would suggest that the famous
quote, “Elementary, my Dear Watson”, might apply to this handbook on the
fundamentals of EBM, but that would be to do Holmes an injustice. In fact,
this quote does not appear anywhere in the Sherlock Holmes stories; it is
only a myth. But EBM is not a myth: it is a valuable tool for achieving an
updated health care service based on scientific data.
The EBM process consists of four steps: “FIRE”.
Remember FIRE. The different steps in the process will be illustrated in the
following sections.
The first step in the EBM process is to Formulate a focused question (FIRE).
A well-formulated question is a prerequisite for getting a useful answer. The
question must be specific and concrete in order to be searchable in databases
and capable of being answered after a critical appraisal of the available infor-
mation. The formulation of an answerable question is neither perfectly
obvious nor easy; it is a matter of finding, among tens of thousands of art-
icles, information that best answers a clinical question pertaining to a specific
patient, action or diagnostic test.
When formulating clinical questions the “PICO” approach can be used,
defining the patient, intervention, comparator, and outcome [1].
I Intervention
What is the intervention (often the new alternative) with which you wish to
compare the standard treatment, i.e. what experiment group is it?
Is the intervention a new drug, surgery, radiotherapy, etc.? Is the interven-
tion a new diagnostic test, a new surgical method, acupuncture, etc.?
C Comparator
What do you want to compare the intervention with? What is the control arm?
1
2 Evidence-Based Medicine in Sherlock Holmes’ Footsteps
O Outcome
What outcome(s) are you interested in? Does your question apply to such
outcomes as survival, symptom reduction, quality of life, reduced sick-listed
time, side-effects, relapses, etc.? Are health-economic effects involved? Is a
new diagnostic test cheaper or more reliable?
Remember PICO!
Your well-thought-out question will now be used in the standard table below.
It is the starting point for the formulation of your question (Step 1) and for
your information search (Step 2):
P I C O
Patient Intervention Control, Outcome
diagnosis/ standard
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information and
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