Paul Glasziou: surfing the wave of evidence-based medicine

Abstract

Paul Glasziou is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast, and is a key figure behind the Lancet Series entitled Research: Improving Value, Reducing Waste. He and Iain Chalmers have been championing this topic since their collaboration together at Oxford, first presented in a 2009 Lancet Viewpoint about avoidable waste in research evidence. “There are four key steps where research can go wrong, which is contributing to an enormous amount of research waste”, explains Glasziou.