ArticleHealth care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy2002
Evidence-based medicine: excessive attraction to efficiency and certainty?
Article in Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effectiveness of Prompt Mental Health Care, the Norwegian Version of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2020Trial
- Evidence-based medicine: why do opponents and proponents use the same arguments?Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2005Review
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Abstract
Advocates of EBM deserve much credit for their efforts to increase the use of scientific evidence and economic evaluation in medical decision making. But EBM advocates' rigid requirements of certainty in the estimation of intervention effects may run counter to society's interest in maximising the expected benefits from resource use in health care. Also, their dedication to efficiency may lead some to overlook societal concerns for fairness in resource allocation.
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