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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