Journal article
Making the Grade: Assuring Trustworthiness in Evidence
Abstract
Despite evidence-based medicine's (EBM's) significant evolution and maturation from its revolutionary origins to its current form as the preeminent means of practicing medicine, there are still good reasons to be unsatisfied with EBM. This essay explores two important new developments in EBM: recently articulated accounts of the scientific basis of EBM, and the related writings of the GRADE Working Group to create standards for interpretation …
Authors
Upshur R
Journal
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 264–275
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date
March 2009
DOI
10.1353/pbm.0.0079
ISSN
0031-5982