Can evidence-based medicine implicitly rely on current concepts of disease or does it have to develop its own definition?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 394-399

  Gerber, Andreas ^a   Hentzelt, Frieder ^b   Lauterbach, Karl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b ASKLEPIOS HOSPITAL BARMBEK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; SOCIAL VALUES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 34447327789     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2006.017913     Document Type: Article

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