ArticleHealth care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy2002
Is there a tension between doctors' duty of care and evidence-based medicine?
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- "We're all just trying to do right by our patients": a qualitative study of healthcare and research personnel's moral experiences of engaging with COVID-19 research during the first wave of the pandemic.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Defining "quality of care" persuasively.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2012Article
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Abstract
The interaction between evidence-based medicine and doctors' duty of care to patients is complex. One the one hand, there is surely an obligation to take account of the best available evidence when offering health care to patients. On the other hand, it is equally important to be aware of important shortcomings in the processes and practices of evidence-based medicine. There are tensions between the population focus of evidence-based medicine and the duties that doctors have to individual patients. Implementing evidence-based medicine may have unpredictable consequences upon the overall quality of health care. Patients may have a range of reasons for preferring one form of treatment over another, not all of which are captured by current formulations of evidence. This paper examines these issues, using relevant examples from evidence-based medicine.
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