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What is the evidence for our standards of care?
Laurence A. Turka, Arthur Caplan
Laurence A. Turka, Arthur Caplan
Published July 1, 2011
Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 2011;121(7):2530-2530. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI59185.
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Editorial

What is the evidence for our standards of care?

Abstract

The term evidence-based medicine is overused, abused, and is beginning to ring hollow. It is not that evidence (or at least of what most people in biomedicine think evidence-based medicine should strive to be) is a bad thing. Rather, there is more rhetoric about evidence than there is actual evidence to support the degree of talk.

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Laurence A. Turka, Arthur Caplan

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