Dr. Gordon Guyatt is a specialist in internal medicine practising out of McMaster University. He is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He is an internationally renowned medical researcher who has published over 800 peer-reviewed articles in medical journals, many in the most well-known and widely read publications. Dr. Guyatt is a one of the leaders in a world-wide movement designed to help physicians and other health care professionals to use the published literature to improve their patient care decisions. He has provided leadership in developing the methods for evidence-based practice guidelines. These methods include systematic reviews of the medical literature, and the application of results of these reviews to the development of practice guidelines and to patient care. He also coined the term 'evidence-based medicine' to describe medical practice that effectively uses the health care literature.

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