Introduction to the symposium: what evidence based medicine is and what it is not

Evidence based medicine has much to offer, but a great deal remains to be done to create a better understanding of what it can and cannot do. The term EBM (evidence based medicine), as we use it nowadays, was introduced in 1992 by the same group of people who, years before, founded the discipline ca...

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Authors: Liberati, A. (Author) ; Vineis, P. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2004
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 120-121
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