Music & Medicine: Debating Evidence- Based Strategies and Outcomes

Abstract

The inclusion of music interventions in medi- cal settings is a growing modality and as such necessitates that rules of evidence guide the mechanisms which support practice. An important aspect of this journal is to present evidence that seeks to establish the efficacy of treatment and to encourage debate. Evidence-based medicine, a model of investigation credited to Archibald Cochrane in the twentieth century, proposed that medical intervention not be confused with medicine based solely on research evidence...