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Using Evidence

PROLOGUE

Reforming Medical Practice Using Evidence

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), as noted in Health Affairs’ January/February 2005 thematic issue devoted to that subject, has garnered progressively greater attention over the past several years as one prominent voice in the increasingly clamorous chorus characterizing the movement toward health care system reform. David Eddy, in his Health Affairs EBM paper, cited the most common definition of EBM as "the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." EBM, in many respects, emerged as a reaction to a growing suspicion of a fallacy inherent in the historical presumption that well-trained . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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