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The importance of values in evidence-based medicine.
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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has always required integration of patient values with 'best' clinical evidence. It is widely recognized that scientific practices and discoveries, including those of EBM, are value-laden. But to date, the science of EBM has focused primarily on methods for reducing bias in the evidence, while the role of values in the different aspects of the EBM process has been almost completely ignored.In this paper, we address this gap by demonstrating how a consideration of...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC medical ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 69
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1472-6939
- ISSN:
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1472-6939
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:572899
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- Local pid:
- pubs:572899
- Source identifiers:
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572899
- Deposit date:
- 2016-01-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Kelly et al
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2015 Kelly et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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