Epistemology of evidence based medicine.

Evidence-Based Medicine Viewpoint: Moving Beyond Evidence-Based Medicine

The evidence-based medicine movement has remained both well known and controversial since its inception. The authors reframe the evidence-based medicine debate by pointing out an underappreciated epistemological deficiency: evidence-based medicine as currently conceptualized cannot accommodate concepts that resist quantitative analysis and therefore cannot logically differentiate human beings f...

Evidence-based medicine: the epistemology that isn't.

ERICA ZARKOVICH and R.E.G. UPSHUR THE VIRTUES OF EVIDENCE

Evidence-based medicine has been defined as the conscientious and judicious use of current best evidence in making clinical decisions. This paper will attempt to explicate the terms “conscientious” and “judicious” within the evidence-based medicine definition. It will be argued that “conscientious” and “judicious” represent virtue terms derived from virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. The id...

Effect of evidence based medicine training in the quality of journal clubs: A road to evidence based journal clubs

  Introduction: Journal clubs play an important role in teaching Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). Evidence based journal clubs focus on real problems of the group, and set a minimum level of evidence for articles to be presented, and in the end a clinical bottom line is set to be used in the daily clinical practice. In this article, we have explained our experience in r...

SCIENTIFIC MAP OF EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE PRODUCTION IN TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES IN SCOPUS DATABASE

Background: The purpose of this study is to identify patterns of information sharing in the field of evidence-based medicine to determine the main areas of evidence dissemination, including co-authorship patterns and citation networks, and to provide a scientific horizon for improving evidence-based medical research in Iran. Accordingly, evidence-based medicine related research at the Endocrino...

Saffron a Prototype Example for Evidence Based Herbal Medicine

Evidence-based medicine is now generally perceived to be the dominant operating system in conventional medicine. Evidence-based medicine developed concurrently with the internet and the world wide web. This is no coincidence since evidence-based medicine suggests a personal responsibility for clinicians to keep abreast of research that would be difficult without the information access that the ...