Abstract
Background and objectives: A lot of books on Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and medical books that are supposed to be evidence-based have been published around the world since EBM was first introduced in 1992. In Japan, such EBM-related books began to be published in the late 1990's, with the numbers growing since then. This study was undertaken to obtain the basic facts regarding EBM books written by Japanese authors and to determine if those books are more “evidence-based” than other clinical books.Method: Citations from 10 books with the term “EBM” in their titles were extracted and the PubMed publication types of each citation were analyzed. The author defined citations that were Meta-analyses, Randomized Controlled Trials, Controlled Clinical Trials, and Academic Reviews as citations with strong evidence.Results: While 31.05% of the citations in books without the term “EBM” in their titles were based on strong evidence, the rate was only 23.77% in the EBM books.Conclusion: EBM books cited fewer articles with a high level of evidence than other clinical medicine books.
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