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According to Sackett et al. (1996) evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. Because decisions about patient-care are not exclusively clinical, the domain of evidence-based medicine also includes health planners, politicians, etc. Arguably, evidence-based medicine is not a scientific movement but a social one.
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Marchevsky, D. (2000). Introduction. In: Critical Appraisal of Medical Literature. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4205-6_1
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