If not evidence, then what? Or does medicine really need a base?

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-119

  Upshur, Ross E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Medical epistemology; Medical reasoning

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; LOGIC; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENCE; THEORY;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0036085389     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2753.2002.00356.x     Document Type: Review

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