Evidence-based medicine: ethically obligatory or ethically suspect?
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Evidence-based medicine: ethically obligatory or ethically suspect?
I n the pages of Evidence-Based Mental Health and elsewhere, authors have argued that it is ethically obligatory to practice evidence-based medicine (EBM). 1–3 The argument in favour of this position begins with the assumption that EBM is more able than other strategies to provide us with accurate information about the effectiveness of medical interventions. Accurate information is essential to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evidence-Based Mental Health
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1362-0347
DOI: 10.1136/ebmh.7.4.96