The Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine in the United Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6327140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Harrison (0000-0001-5951-3300, Reader in Health Policy and Politics, Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-31 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557398782018293 |
| OpenAlex | W2007671930 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
English Evidence-based medicine, the doctrine that professional clinical practice should be based on sound research evidence about the effectiveness of the procedures used, is now official policy for the National Health Service. Despite its obvious common-sense and political appeal, the policy seems to be based on a number of questionable assumptions about implementation, political popularity and scientific consensus, yet accords in general terms with contemporary developments in modes of controlling organisations
Appeal · Doctrine · Epistemology · Evidence-based medicine · MEDLINE · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Public relations · Scientific evidence · Clinical practice guidelines implementation · Health Sciences Research and Education · Law · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Public Administration
Identity, Contract and Enterprise in a Primary Care Setting
The Politics of Personalised Medicine
The Evidence Business
Evidence-based practice and the management of risk in nursing
From accidents to risk
Speaking Out
Epistemology, evidence and experience
The Iron Cage and the Gaze
Pesquisa qualitativa em medicina de família e comunidade
Medicina de família e prevenção quaternária
Clinical reasoning, clinical trials and risky drinkers in everyday primary care
Recovering political knowledge in public health
Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements
Health Action Zones
What is the role of harm reduction when drug users say they want abstinence
Entangled evidence
Making health services management research critical
Evidence‐Based Medicine or Cookbook Medicine? Addressing Concerns over the Standardization of Care
Avoiding philosophy as a trump-card in sociological writing. A study from the discourse of evidence-based healthcare
How can systematic reviews incorporate qualitative research? A critical perspective
The ‘Healthcare State’ in Transition
La nouvelle gestion publique en santé et services sociaux et l'émergence de la gestion de cas
Policy Emergence and Policy Convergence
Consumers enter the political stage? The modernization of health care in Britain and Germany
Tissue-Engineered Technologies
Evidence‐based Engagement in the Voluntary Sector
How are policy makers using evidence? Models of research utilisation and local NHS policy making
From Research Evidence to “Evidence by Proxy”? Organizational Enactment of Evidence‐Based Health Care in Four High‐Income Countries
Evidence‐based Management
Harmless, friendly and lethal
The 'actualities' of knowledge work
Leadership, Service Reform, and Public-Service Networks
The information revolution, health reform and doctor-manager relations
Managing professional conduct from an evidence-based perspective
Management des conduites professionnelles par les résultats probants de la recherche. Une analyse critique
Medical Autonomy and the UK State 1975 to 2025
Making and Unmaking Telepatients
Identifying Effectiveness in ''The Old Old
The role of performance indicators in changing the autonomy of the general practice profession in the UK
Evaluating Health Interventions for Older People
Medical audit
A Letter of Consequence
When protocols fail
The Quality and Outcomes Framework
Technogovernance
The problem of evidence-based medicine
Affordability as a discursive accomplishment in a changing National Health Service
Health technology assessment in its local contexts
Diversity in clinical guidelines
Political strategies in difficult times - The "backstage" experience of Swedish politicians on formal priority setting in healthcare
A double-edged sword? Health research and research governance in UK primary care
Health technology adoption and the politics of governance in the UK
Accounting for complexity in healthcare innovation debates
Cognitive Citizenship
Scientific-bureaucratic Medicine and Uk Health Policy1
Linking high-risk preventive strategy to biomedical-industry market
New public management and professionals in the public sector. What new patterns beyond opposition
New Public Management et professions dans l'État
Physiotherapists and Evidence Based Practice
Literary Ethnography of Evidence-Based Healthcare
Beyond Information
From Women's Health to Gender Mainstreaming and Back Again
Autonomy and bureaucratic accountability in primary care
The social and cultural construction of psychiatric knowledge
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,37 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2023 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 63 |