Evidence based medicine: does it make a difference?

6 January 2005

journal article
letter
Published by BMJ in BMJ

Vol. 330 (7482) , 92.2-92
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.330.7482.92-a

Abstract

# Make it evidence informed practice with a little wisdom {#article-title-2} EDITOR—In the theme issue on whether evidence based medicine makes a difference Gabbay and le May ask whether guidelines are evidence based or “mindlines” that have been constructed collectively.1 It is clearly time to change “evidence based medicine” to “evidence informed practice.”2 Although “EBMers” have emphasised the importance of patients' values in decision making, this is missed in most …

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