Continuing the evidence-based health care debate in 2006. The progress and price of EBM

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 385-398

  Miles, Andrew ^a   Loughlin, Michael ^b,c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Clinical practice guidelines; Conflicts of interest; Controversies; Evidence; Evidence based; Evidence based medicine; Ideologues; Ideology; Knowledge; Pseudoauthority; Quality; Scientism

Indexed keywords

ART; CONSENSUS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; LIFE EVENT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFIT; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; VALIDITY;

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; DRUG INDUSTRY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33746410041     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00740.x     Document Type: Note

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