In his own words, "The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research." The key thing ...

On his first day of medical school, Philip Devereaux learned from a tutor that his academic advisor was Dr. David Sackett. “Who is he?” Devereaux recalls asking. The tutor told him that Sackett was a ...

David Sackett, who is widely known as the father of evidence-based medicine, died on May 13, 2015. He was 80. He was the Founding Chair of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at ...

David Sackett, the physician, who has died aged 80, was a pioneer in the field of evidence-based medicine; his research teams were among the first to show the efficacy of aspirin in helping to prevent ...

Dr. David Sackett, whose clinical trials proved the value of taking aspirin in preventing heart attacks and strokes, and who helped pioneer the use of statistical data in treating patients, died on ...