Evidence-Based Medicine: Excessive attraction to efficiency and certainty?

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 299-307

  Nord, Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Critique; EBM; Evidence based medicine; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SOCIETY;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0037732621     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022903924990     Document Type: Review

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