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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is gaining importance in our current health-care landscape. However, the concept of EBM risks to become a victim of its own success if all parties involved are not clear on what EBM really is, why and how EBM should (not) be practiced, and have sufficient skills to distinguish methodologically sound papers from biased opinion papers.
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Van Biesen, W. (2016). Where Is the Evidence? Best Practice in Spine Surgery. In: van de Kelft, E. (eds) Surgery of the Spine and Spinal Cord. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27613-7_5
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