- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Respondents
- <i>Introduction: medicine’s dilemma at the end of the twentieth century</i>
- 1 <i>Selective ethics</i>
- 2 <i>Does a difference make a difference?</i>
- 3 <i>Prescription for disaster</i>
- 4 <i>Therapeutic mystique</i>
- 5 <i>Humane limits</i>
- 6 <i>Intruding in private tragedies</i>
- 7 <i>The glut of information</i>
- 8 <i>Betting on specified horses</i>
- 9 <i>Begin with ‘If…’</i>
- 10 <i>Archie’s scepticism</i>
- 11 <i>Arbitrary vs discretionary decisions</i>
- 12 <i>Bioengineering</i>
- 13 ‘… <i>disavowing the tree’</i>
- 14 <i>Diffusing responsibility</i>
- 15 <i>Hawthorne effects</i>
- 16 <i>Power plays</i>
- 17 <i>Unbridled enthusiasm</i>
- 18 <i>Caring and curing</i>
- 19 <i>On the edge</i>
- 20 <i>Informing and consenting</i>
- 21 <i>Lifesavers</i>
- 22 <i>Belief and disbelief</i>
- 23 <i>Preferences</i>
- 24 <i>Bradford Hill’s doubts</i>
- 25 <i>More informative abstracts</i>
- 26 <i>Pain control in neonates</i>
- 27 <i>Miraculous cures</i>
- 28 <i>Observer bias</i>
- 29 <i>The gatekeeper’s brouhaha</i>
- 30 <i>Creatures of bounded rationality</i>
- 31 <i>Champing at the bit</i>
- 32 <i>Piecemeal skirmishes</i>
- 33 <i>Resolution of insoluble dilemmas</i>
- 34 <i>‘Fixing’ human reproduction</i>
- 35 <i>Justice defined as fairness</i>
- 36 <i>‘Methods-based’ reviews</i>
- 37 <i>Non-replication of the replicable</i>
- 38 <i>Who defines ‘futility’?</i>
- 39 <i>Fitting targets to holes</i>
- 40 <i>Medical ‘manners’ on trial</i>
- 41 <i>Sanction of whose beliefs and values?</i>
- 42 <i>Mindless existence</i>
- 43 <i>Interventions on an unprecedented scale</i>
- 44 <i>Preoccupation with ‘autonomy’</i>
- 45 <i>A ‘win’ in medical Russian roulette</i>
- Citations
- <i>Bibliography</i>
- <i>Index</i>
The glut of information
The glut of information
- Chapter:
- (p.26) 7 The glut of information
- Source:
- Where's the Evidence?
- Author(s):
William A. Silverman
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter presents a 1989 commentary on the growing number of medical articles being published each year. It considers the question of how readers can cope with this unprecedented glut of data. It cites editors' rising concerns over the failure of the time-honoured peer review process to control the quality of published information.
Keywords: medical articles, medical research, peer review, medical journals
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Respondents
- <i>Introduction: medicine’s dilemma at the end of the twentieth century</i>
- 1 <i>Selective ethics</i>
- 2 <i>Does a difference make a difference?</i>
- 3 <i>Prescription for disaster</i>
- 4 <i>Therapeutic mystique</i>
- 5 <i>Humane limits</i>
- 6 <i>Intruding in private tragedies</i>
- 7 <i>The glut of information</i>
- 8 <i>Betting on specified horses</i>
- 9 <i>Begin with ‘If…’</i>
- 10 <i>Archie’s scepticism</i>
- 11 <i>Arbitrary vs discretionary decisions</i>
- 12 <i>Bioengineering</i>
- 13 ‘… <i>disavowing the tree’</i>
- 14 <i>Diffusing responsibility</i>
- 15 <i>Hawthorne effects</i>
- 16 <i>Power plays</i>
- 17 <i>Unbridled enthusiasm</i>
- 18 <i>Caring and curing</i>
- 19 <i>On the edge</i>
- 20 <i>Informing and consenting</i>
- 21 <i>Lifesavers</i>
- 22 <i>Belief and disbelief</i>
- 23 <i>Preferences</i>
- 24 <i>Bradford Hill’s doubts</i>
- 25 <i>More informative abstracts</i>
- 26 <i>Pain control in neonates</i>
- 27 <i>Miraculous cures</i>
- 28 <i>Observer bias</i>
- 29 <i>The gatekeeper’s brouhaha</i>
- 30 <i>Creatures of bounded rationality</i>
- 31 <i>Champing at the bit</i>
- 32 <i>Piecemeal skirmishes</i>
- 33 <i>Resolution of insoluble dilemmas</i>
- 34 <i>‘Fixing’ human reproduction</i>
- 35 <i>Justice defined as fairness</i>
- 36 <i>‘Methods-based’ reviews</i>
- 37 <i>Non-replication of the replicable</i>
- 38 <i>Who defines ‘futility’?</i>
- 39 <i>Fitting targets to holes</i>
- 40 <i>Medical ‘manners’ on trial</i>
- 41 <i>Sanction of whose beliefs and values?</i>
- 42 <i>Mindless existence</i>
- 43 <i>Interventions on an unprecedented scale</i>
- 44 <i>Preoccupation with ‘autonomy’</i>
- 45 <i>A ‘win’ in medical Russian roulette</i>
- Citations
- <i>Bibliography</i>
- <i>Index</i>
