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Rational Decision Making in Psychiatry: Evidence-Based Psychiatry is Just the Start

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Trevor A. Sheldon  and
Simon M. Gilbody
Trevor A. Sheldon
Affiliation:
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York YOI 5DD
Simon M. Gilbody
Affiliation:
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York YOI 5DD
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Geddes and Harrison make the case simply and persuasively for the value of a systematic approach to identifying and applying research evidence in clinical practice. No sensible psychiatrist, nurse or other therapist can justify a situation where patterns of practice are overly influenced by fashion, tradition, what the chief of staff happens to believe, or what the adverts claim, independent of the scientific basis, as represented by the results of valid experimental research.

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Evidence-Based Psychiatry
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 171 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 226 - 227
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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