Eminence based care

As I’ve mentioned before, I picked up the term “eminence based medicine” from Ashish Jha. It’s a great phrase. Apt, in some cases. But I worry it might be offensive to physicians. So, I did some searching and found that (a) it is not a new term and (b) physicians have used it themselves. Below are some citations.

  • David Isaacs, clinical professor, and Dominic Fitzgerald, staff physician, in a BMJ paper (1999). Very short, fun, and worth a look.
  • Darrell G. Kirch, M.D, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, in a presentation to the Institute of Medicine (2006, pdf)
  • Valentina Baltag, Véronique Filippi, and Alberta Bacci, in The International Journal for Quality in Health Care (January 2012)

There are many more. Conclusion: The term “eminence based medicine” is physician-approved, economist-recommended.

AF

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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