David Sackett
David Lawrence Sackett (born November 17, 1934 in Chicago , Illinois , United States , † May 13, 2015 in Markdale , Ontario , Canada ) was a Canadian physician and one of the pioneers of evidence-based medicine .
Sackett founded the first university department for clinical epidemiology and biostatistics (Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) at McMaster University in Hamilton (Ontario) in Canada in 1967 . In this context, the concepts of clinical epidemiology and scientifically based patient care were developed, which have been in worldwide use since the beginning of the 1990s under the name of "evidence-based medicine".
From 1994 to 1999 David Sackett was the founding director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine of the National Health Service at Oxford University , England. During this time, Sackett pioneered evidence-based health care in Europe. In 1999, Sackett founded the Kilgore S. Trout Research & Education Center at Irish Lake in Ontario .
In 2000, Sackett was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame . In 2007, the Science Prize of the German Evidence-Based Medicine Network was named after David Sackett (see David Sackett Prize ). In 2009 he received the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award .
Books
- RB Haynes, DL Sackett, GH Guyatt, P. Tugwell: Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research . 3. Edition. Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia 2005.
Web links
- Dr. David Sackett. ( Memento of February 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (English)
- Jonathan Hobson: Profiling the EBM man - Professor Sackett ( Memento of February 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at: studentBMJ.com (English)
- David Sackett: Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. In: BMJ. 1996 (English).
- Sam Roberts: Dr. David Sackett, Who Proved Aspirin Helps Prevent Heart Attacks, Dies at 80. In: The New York Times . May 19, 2015 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ B. White: Making evidence-based medicine doable in everyday practice . In: Fam Pract Manag . tape 11 , no. 2 , 2004, p. 51-58 , PMID 15011482 .
- ^ Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group . In: JAMA . tape 268 , no. 17 , 1992, pp. 2420-2425 , PMID 1404801 .
- ↑ fhs.mcmaster.ca
- ^ Reflections on David Sackett's time at the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sackett, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sackett, David Lawrence (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 2015 |
| Place of death | Markdale , Ontario , Canada |