Paul Glasziou compiled a list for the best EBM papers in 2004. These papers had to deal with either methods for EBM or teaching of EBM. Here is the list:
- Arri Coomarasamy, Khalid S Khan. What is the evidence that postgraduate teaching in evidence-based medicine changes anything? A systematic review. BMJ 2004;329:1017. Available in html format or pdf format.
- John Gabbay, Andrée le May. Evidence-based guidelines or collectively constructed “mindlines?” Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care BMJ 2004;329:1013. Available in html format or pdf format.
- Sharon E Straus, Michael L Green, Douglas S Bell, Robert Badgett, Dave Davis, Martha Gerrity, Eduardo Ortiz, Terrence M Shaneyfelt, Chad Whelan, Rajesh Mangrulkar, the Society of General Internal Medicine Evidence-Based Medicine Task Force Evaluating the teaching of evidence-based medicine: conceptual framework BMJ 2004;329:1029-1032. Available in html format or pdf format.
- Victor M Montori, Nancy L Wilczynski, Douglas Morgan, R Brian Haynes, for the Hedges Team. Optimal search strategies for retrieving systematic reviews from Medline: analytical survey. BMJ 2005;330:68. Available in html format or pdf format.
- Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB, the Hedges Team. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically sound prognostic studies in MEDLINE: an analytic survey. BMC Medicine 2004, 2:23 (9 June 2004). Available in html format or pdf format.
- Peter C. Wyer, Sheri Keitz, Rose Hatala, Robert Hayward, Alexandra Barratt, Victor Montori, Eric Wooltorton, and Gordon Guyatt Tips for learning and teaching evidence-based medicine introduction to the series. Can. Med. Assoc. J., Aug 2004; 171: 347-348. Available in html format or pdf format.
- McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. What do evidence-based secondary journals tell us about the publication of clinically important articles in primary healthcare journals? BMC Medicine 2004, 2:33 (6 September 2004). Available in html format or pdf format.
- Katrak P, Bialocerkowski AE, Massy-Westropp N, Kumar S, Grimmer KA BMC Med Res Methodol. 2004 Sep 16;4(1):22. A systematic review of the content of critical appraisal tools. Available in html format or pdf format.
- Maher CG, Sherrington C, Elkins M, et al. Challenges for evidence-based physical therapy accessing and interpreting high-quality evidence on therapy. Phys Ther. 2004;84644-654. Available in html format.
- Philips Z et al. Review of guidelines for good practice in decision-analytic modelling in health technology assessment. Health Tech Assess 2004;8(36). Available in pdf format.
which was published on the evidence-based Health email discussion group. He offered thanks to Sue Lacey Bryant, Jon Brassey, Douglas Badenoch, Robert Grant, Reinhard Wentz, and Andrew Booth for suggestions.