I've Been over into the Future

Editorials several months ago heralded the arrival of a new publication [1, 2]. Now it's here.

Evidence-Based Medicine will look familiar to readers of ACP Journal Club, upon which it is modeled. According to its statement of purpose, Evidence-Based Medicine is designed to “alert clinicians to important advances in internal medicine, general and family practice, surgery, psychiatry, paediatrics, and obstetrics and gynaecology by selecting from the biomedical literature those original and review articles whose results are most likely to be both true and useful.” Selection according to tough, explicit criteria for …