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Evaluating Evidence

PROLOGUE

Evaluating Evidence

PROLOGUE: Notwithstanding the epidemic of hype that surrounds and obscures the concept of evidence-based medicine (EBM), increased efforts to systematically collect and disseminate clinical research results to practitioners are a necessary and appropriate response to the contemporary challenge of exploding biomedical knowledge. But the struggle to tame this unruly frontier is a contentious business. Basic agreement about the proper organization of its boundaries and infrastructure remains to be achieved. Some parties to the medical enterprise question the fundamental thrust of EBM and suspect it to be a Trojan horse concealing an intent to industrialize and cheapen medicine. For others, that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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