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Prof. R. Brian Haynes
Affiliation
McMaster UniversityAcademy or College
Academy of ScienceYear Elected
2007Areas of Interest
Clinical epidemiology, health informatics, knowledge translation, diabetes mellitus, clinical quality improvement
Long Citation
Dr. R. Brian Haynes is the world leader in medical information research and knowledge translation as a means to improve clinical and health care through improving the retrieval, distillation, synthesis, dissemination and application of validated health care knowledge. He was the first person ever to systematically research a worldwide array of clinical medical journal articles on diagnosis, prognosis, therapeutics, economics, and quality-of-care, establishing that less than 1% of them were both scientifically valid and clinically applicable. He then led the worldwide scientific effort to correct this deficiency by creating a health knowledge refinery and leading the scientific development of both evidence-based journals and internet information services.
Short Citation
Dr. R. Brian Haynes is the world leader in medical information research and knowledge translation as a means to improve clinical and health care. He was the first person ever to systematically research a worldwide array of clinical medical journal articles, establishing that less than 1% of them were both scientifically valid and clinically applicable. He has led the scientific development of both evidence-based journals and internet information services.