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Author Information From the Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Drs Levine, Walter, and Haines), Medicine (Drs Lee and Holbrook), the Occupational Health Program (Dr Haines), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas, Houston (Dr Moyer). For the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. A complete list of members (with affiliations) of the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group appears in the first article of this series (JAMA. 1993;270:2093-2095). The following members contributed to this article: Gordon Guyatt (chair), MD, MSc; Eric Bass, MD, MPH; George Browman, MD, MSc; Deborah Cook, MD, MSc; Michael Farkouh, MD; Hertzel Gerstein, MD, MSc; Ted Haines, MD, MSc; Brian Haynes, MD, MSc, PhD; Robert Hayward, MD, MPH; Anne Holbrook, MD, PharmD, MSc; Roman Jaeschke, MD, MSc; Elizabeth Juniper, MCSP, MSc; Andreas Laupacis, MD, MSc; Hui Lee, MD, MSc; Mitchell Levine, MD, MSc; Virginia Moyer, MD, MPH; David Naylor, MD, DPhi; Jim Nishikawa, MD; Andrew Oxman, MD, MSc, FACPM; Ameen Patel, MD; John Philbrick, MD; Scott Richardson, MD; Stephane Sauve, MD, MSc; David Sackett, MD, MSc; Jack Sinclair, MD; Brian Strom, MD, MPH; K.S. Trout, FRCE; Sean Tunis, MD, MSc; Stephen Walter, PhD; John Williams Jr, MD, MHS; and Mark Wilson, MD, MPH. Reprint requests to Room 2C12, McMaster University Health Sciences Centre, 1200 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N 3Z5 (Dr Guyatt). JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association Issue: Volume 271(20),€25 May 1994,€pp 1615-1619 Copyright: Copyright 1994 by the American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use. American Medical Association, 515 N. State St, Chicago, IL 60610. Publication Type: [The Medical Literature] ISSN: 0098-7484 Accession: 00005407-199405250-00034