David Sackett, MD, the reputed father of evidence-based medicine (EBM), died Wednesday, May 13, at age 80, but lived long enough to see physicians using smartphones to look up practice guidelines at a ...

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 ...

The physician David Sackett, who has died aged 80, was a leading advocate of evidence-based medicine. Born in the US, he spent much of his life in Canada; there and in Britain he promoted a radical ...

In his final year of medical school, David Sackett was entrusted with the care of a teenager being treated for what is now call hepatitis A. At the time, the late 1950s, the standard treatment was ...

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 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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 ...