ReviewBMC medical ethics2015
The importance of values in evidence-based medicine.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Integrating patient values and preferences in healthcare: a systematic review of qualitative evidence.BMJ open · 2022Pooled it
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- Smile Esthetics and Rotated Maxillary Lateral Incisors.International journal of dentistry · 2026Article
- Core values and best practice criteria for interprofessional teams in primary care: a qualitative interview study with general practitioners and other health professionals from Bavaria, Germany.BMC primary care · 2025Article
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- Core values and principles of general practice and family medicine: perspectives of German GP residents-a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- "She mimicked the manipulations on my hand": fostering embodied care among children with recurrent acute respiratory tract infections in Southern China.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Article
- Growing and fostering knowledge translation: Recommendations for health organisations from the SPHERE Envisionarium.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Medicine, Bioethics, and the Search for Truth: Does "Declaring" Death Make It So?The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2024Article
- Factors influencing the use of natural health products, in particular for concentration and cognition in Germany.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Article
- Patient perspectives about treatment preferences for obesity with complications.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Sufficiency health-wise: sustainable paths towards planetary and public health.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- [A conceptual framework for good preventive practices (or for quaternary prevention)].Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
- Biological Reductionism as an Obstacle to the Advancement of the Biopsychosocial Concept of Mental Disorders.Consortium psychiatricum · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence-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. DISCUSSION: In this paper, we address this gap by demonstrating how a consideration of values can enhance every aspect of EBM, including: prioritizing which tests and treatments to investigate, selecting research designs and methods, assessing effectiveness and efficiency, supporting patient choice and taking account of the limited time and resources available to busy clinicians. Since values are integral to the practice of EBM, it follows that the highest standards of EBM require values to be made explicit, systematically explored, and integrated into decision making. Through 'values based' approaches, EBM's connection to the humanitarian principles upon which it was founded will be strengthened.
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