Reductionist inference-based medicine, i.e. EBM

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 445-449

  De Simone, John ^a  

^a NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Complexity science; Critical appraisal; Evidence based medicine; Interdisciplinary approach; Medical culture; Postmodernism; Reductionism; Systems thinking; Trends

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SCIENCE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746402815     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00728.x     Document Type: Article

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