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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2005 94(3):397; doi:10.1093/bja/aei520
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2005. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journal.permissions@oupjournals.org

BOOK REVIEW

Evidence-Based Practice of Anesthesiology. L. A. Fleisher (editor). Published by Saunders, Philadelphia. Pp. 476; indexed. Price £46.99. ISBN 0-7216-9409-8

E-mail: nev.w.goodman@bris.ac.uk

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A better example of the rhetorical trick that is evidence-based medicine would be difficult to find. Not that the book that Fleisher has assembled and edited is bad. It is well written, thoughtful, useful, and every chapter is well researched. But it is not, by what the term has come to mean, evidence-based any more than any large textbook is an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

N. W. Goodman

Bristol, UK


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