The Editorial that Wasn't: Evidence for Systematic Research Mani...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Mon, 11/16/2009 - 15:55

Woe to those of us who have been advocates for evidence-based medicine.  A short description of the evidence-based medicine is medicine whose practice is informed by critical, rigorous review of the best available evidence from clinical research as revealed by systematic search of the published research literature, as well as by the clinician's understanding of biology and the medical and biopsychosocial context, and by the patient's own values.

Evidence-based medicine is based on some key assumptions.  One is that a...


 

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