A Wide Web of Healthcare Data: He Who Controls The Data, Control...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Thu, 09/04/2008 - 10:26

In posts such as here and here , it's become apparent that "Evidence Based Medicine" (EBM), while perhaps reasonable in theory, is probably unreasonable in practice with the ethics of healthcare in 2008.

One cannot have evidence based rules for anything, let alone healthcare, if the evidence is tainted.

Think clinical research and the drivers of "publish or perish" are the only domains where this evidentiary taint can occur?

Think again....


 

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