Revisiting the Evidence - Based Medicine Paradigm - the Need to Be Aware of Its Limitations. A Quick Overview and a Brief Review of Some Recent Critiques (original) (raw)
2015
Since its inception two decades ago the evidence based medicine (EBM) became the dominant paradigm in medical thinking. Its widespread dominance is often taken uncritically by the clinicians who conduct their practice following its lines. The need for a more critical view became indispensable in the last years after a variety of critiques that disclosed the limitation of the EBM conception. The aim of this paper is to present some of the main critiques that expose the conception’s limitations and emphasize the need for a more conscientious take on the approach.
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