Gordon H. Guyatt
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Gordon H. Guyatt
@guyattgh.bsky.social

Promoting use of the best evidence and patient values and preferences to inform optimal clinical and health policy decisions.

Gordon Henry Guyatt is a Canadian physician who is a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is known for his leadership in evidence-based medicine, a term that first appeared in a single-author paper he published in 1991. Subsequently, a 1992 JAMA article led by Guyatt proved instrumental in bringing the concept of evidence-based medicine to the world's attention. Guyatt's concerns with the role of the medical system, social justice, and medical reform remain central issues that he promoted in tandem with his medical work. He was named to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2015. .. more

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In this one minute video I explain how a person who takes an #Evidence based approach to life responds when asked a question for which they don’t know the evidence.
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#evidence #ebm #medicine | Gordon Guyatt
In this one minute video I explain how a person who takes an #Evidence based approach to life responds when asked a question for which they don’t know the evidence. #EBM #medicine
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Biking with my friend and former mentee Mohit Bhandari, now leading clinical trialist in orthopedic trauma, leader in intimate partner violence research and Chair of Surgery at #McMaster.

This #JAMA Users’ guide to the medical literature explains how to use an article that addresses how to understand and interpret articles about patients’ #QualityofLife usually measured using #PatientReportedOutcomes (PRO).

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Users' guides to the medical literature. XII. How to use articles about health-related quality of life. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group - PubMed
Users' guides to the medical literature. XII. How to use articles about health-related quality of life. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group
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#JAMA editor Drummond Rennie who died recently acted as the champion of the JAMA Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature. Without his advocacy the series would never have happened and the #EBM movement might never have got off the ground.

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Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication
Drummond Rennie, physician, scientist, editor, climber, tireless promoter of integrity and transparency in science, and mentor to many, died on September 12, 2025, at the age of 89.
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In this one minute tutorial, I explain the meaning and significance of a weak or conditional #GRADE recommendation.

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#grade | Gordon Guyatt
In this one minute tutorial, I explain the meaning and significance of a weak or conditional #GRADE recommendation. Leticia Kawano-Dourado, MD, PhD
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Anyone interested in determining the effect of a drug in a single patient by conducting a #RandomizedTrial in a that patient – an N of 1 trial – will find this step-by-step guide enormously useful.

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A clinician's guide for conducting randomized trials in individual patients
In determining optimal treatment for a patient conventional trials of therapy are susceptible to bias. Large-scale randomized trials can provide only a partial guide and have not been or cannot be car...
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Reposted by Lars G. Hemkens

Reposted by Lars G. Hemkens

Forming #EvidenceBased plans of #EBM care that respond to each patient’s situation demands #SharedDecisionMaking. JP Brito, Iris Hargraves, and Marleen Kunneman are doing leading work to advance the practice of making care fit using shared decision making.

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Shared decision-making as a method of care
Care happens in interaction between the patient and the clinician, in conversation where the patient and clinician uncover or develop a shared understanding of the problematic situation of the patient...
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This video presents a answer to the question of how evidence-based medicine - #EBM - protects us against inflated, misleading claims of treatment effect. I’ll be posting a number of such snippets and you’ll enjoy my charming interlocutor,
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#evidencbasedmedicine #ebm | Gordon Guyatt
This video presents a 16 second answer to the question of how #EvidencBasedMedicine - #EBM - protects us against inflated, misleading claims of treatment effect. I’ll be posting a number of such snipp...
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