Is psychiatry evidence-based medicine?(POINT/COUNTERPOINT)

Clinical Psychiatry News;  June 1, 2007 ;   Krishnan, K. Ranga R. Michels, Robert;   787 words ...We must rely on the best evidence we have. The practice of evidence-based medicine is the integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research, and further integrating this...

Early discussion of the evidence

Dispute Resolution Journal;  August 1, 2003 ;   Albright, Terrill D;   787 words ......Panel Should Not Wait Until All the Evidence Is In The arbitration panel is one...few deliberative bodies that ears evidence presented live and then renders...should begin to discuss the submitted evidence-is not addressed in any arbitrator...

Girls' similar evidence could corroborate

The Independent - London;  May 26, 1995 ;   PAUL MAGRATH;   717 words ...Regina v H (evidence: corroboration). House of Lords (Lord Mackay of Clashfern...offences against more than one complainant, each giving evidence with similarities, the risk that the evidence was contaminated by collusion did not, save in exceptional...

"Improbable Probability": On Evidence in the Eighteenth Century.

The Germanic Review;  March 22, 2001 ;   CAMPE, RUDIGER;   787 words ...I. A Discourse on Evidence, 1724 In 1724, at the end of his rectorship...the rector not only takes up the word evidence in its philosophical sense from Descartes...still use on a prominent occasion: evidence appeared as the key term in the Academy...

Evidence of post-offence conduct in criminal proceedings, part I: the...

The Advocate;  September 1, 2000 ;   Harris, Nikos;   787 words ...While evidence of an accused's conduct after an alleged...traditionally admitted for limited purposes. Evidence of post-offence conduct has commonly...However, the potential application of this evidence is far wider. Part I of this paper discusses...

Evidence-based policy making: some observations of recent Canadian...

Social Policy Journal of New Zealand;  June 1, 2003 ;   Zussman, David;   787 words ......talks about Canada's experience with evidence-based policy making. He shares three...problems involved in trying to integrate evidence into the decision-making process. He...Canada's Performance 2002 , provides evidence on how well or bow poorly the government...

Evidence-based medicine: an opportunity not to be missed.

The Australian Library Journal;  August 1, 2000 ;   Sladek, Ruth M;   787 words ...EBM (Evidence Based Medicine), is now an unavoidable...healthcare. It is dependent upon accessing `evidence', that is, both published and unpublished...AS `THE INTEGRATION OF BEST RESEARCH EVIDENCE with clinical expertise and patient values...

Case evidence lost Officials unsure if any suspects will go free

The Gazette;  April 29, 2006 ;   DENNIS HUSPENI THE GAZETTE;   787 words ......Springs police officials said Friday that evidence in thousands of criminal cases had been...Friday morning indicated 11,395 pieces of evidence were mistakenly lost in 4,103 criminal...details about how the destruction of evidence occurred, how long it had been going...

The vital DNA evidence that the jury never even heard; Serial killer:...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 12, 2007 ;     787 words ......Jonathan Brocklebank TWO vital strands of evidence that could have convicted serial killerAngus...case. It was in the absence of just such evidence that Sinclairs counsel Edgar Prais,QC...here. He later added: Lets say there evidence of DNA on a ligature. there was DNA from...

The importance of evidence

Intheblack;  September 1, 2008 ;   O'Bryan, Andrew; Scott, Sally;   787 words ......YOU CANNOT WIN A TAX CASE WITHOUT GOOD EVIDENCE ON YOUR SIDE. ANDREW O'BRYAN AND SALLY SCOTT DEFINE "EVIDENCE", EXPLAIN HOW THE COURTS USE IT AND PROVIDE...a client follow the law. However, the evidence that is created and retained by an accountant...

Prosecutors may drop case due to mislaid evidence: ; Clendenin man accused...

Charleston Daily Mail;  March 16, 2000 ;   CHRIS STIREWALT;   738 words ......MAIL STAFF Prosecutors say that because evidence was lost, mislaid and mishandled by the...fire investigators had already found evidence that accelerants were used to start the fire. That evidence, combined with Criner's alleged threats...

Sheriff has more room for evidence

Charleston Gazette;  January 30, 2006 ;   Dave Gustafson;   787 words ...daveg@wvgazette.com It used to be that evidence in most crimes in Kanawha County, whether...for the department's long- awaited new evidence room. In a remote part of the department...Sheriff Mike Rutherford said of the old evidence room. "Of anything in the department...

The influence of limiting instructions on processing and judgments of...

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law;  April 1, 2006 ;   Cush, Rachel K. Delahunty, Jane Goodman;   787 words ......instructions are issued after all the evidence has been presented in a trial; however...gruesome photographs form part of the evidence in criminal culpability proceedings...to be dispassionate in examining the evidence. This study investigated whether time...

Managing professional evidence

Law & Order;  May 1, 2001 ;   Kennedy, David;   787 words ...Keep Your Department's Evidence Under Control and Organized Today's evidence custodian may feel like the lone contestant in a...laws, OSHA and insurance companies to dispose of evidence. The evidence manager seemingly has both decreasing...

Using Evidence To Guide Decision Making in the Educational Setting

School System Special Interest Section Quarterly / American Occupational Therapy Association;  September 1, 2006 ;   Collins, Amy;   787 words ...The goal of evidence-based practice is to integrate the best research evidence with clinical expertise and client values in order...therapists acknowledge the importance of integrating evidence into their daily practice, and many have taken...