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Seminar on Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Economics

02/06/2017

Postgraduate students in Medicine and Human Health and Health Technologies and health professionals participated, on May 26 and June 2, in the I Advanced Course in Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Economics, an initiative resulting from an inter-institutional partnership between the Bahiana and the University of Ulm (Germany).

Participants attended classes by professors Franz Porzsolt from the University of Ulm and president of the Institute of Clinical Economics and Dr. Luiz Cláudio Correia, from Bahiana.

The course aimed to promote the use of scientific thinking in clinical reasoning, by mastering notions of randomness, methodological and cognitive biases, concepts of clinical economics and principles of translating scientific knowledge (effectiveness) into real-world practice (effectiveness) .

In addition to aspects of scientific methodology, the course addressed cognitive aspects related to medical-scientific thinking, the principles of evidence-based decision, the perceived safety bias, determinants of effectiveness (real world) and efficiency, clinical economics reasoning, overuse and the paradigm Choosing Wisely.