ASCO Guideline on how to improve the accuracy of ER and PR testing in breast cancer and on the utility of these receptors as predictive markers. [2010]

Analysis of requirements for clinical practice guidelines in order to facilitate implementation and strengthen confidence in recommendations about diagnostic tests. [2011]

Discussion of the inadequacies of current schemes for the evaluation of evidence levels, along with a proposed scale of evidence levels for more appropriate to publications in pathology. [2011]

Documents the lack of randomized clinical trials evaluating the prognosis of patients with thymomas and the effects of various treatment modalities, and calls for an international cooperative study and meta-analysis of thymomas. [2008]

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prognostic importance of transcapsular invasion in thymoma stage I and II, finding it not a significant prognostic feature of any clinical value. [2008]

Reviews history and basic concepts of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based pathology, how to perform and interpret systematic reviews, and how to integrate best evidence into guidelines. [2015] [PDF]

Review of the history and basic concepts of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based pathology, and how to perform and interpret systematic reviews, and integrate best evidence into guidelines. [2015]

Asks the question "Are pathologists, in fact, as evidence based as they believe?", showing large areas of both anatomic and clinical pathology where evidence-based methodologies have not been applied, and offering constructive suggestions for more systematic application.

Examines whether the practice of anatomic pathology fulfills the tenets of evidence-based medicine (EBM), arguing that anatomic pathology has in fact a unique place in the practice of EBM.