Letters
Evidence based medicine is broken
For a truly humanistic ethic, we need truly humanistic medicine
BMJ 2014; 348 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g1133 (Published 29 January 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;348:g1133- Miran Epstein, reader in medical ethics1
- 1Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AB, UK
- m.epstein{at}qmul.ac.uk
The conception that “poor regulation” compounds the profit driven pollution of evidence based medicine (EBM) is gaining popularity.1 2 3 Indeed, current regulation is handmaiden to the “polluters,” as these examples indicate:
• It allows medical parties to have financial conflicts of interest
• It goes easy on the adequacy of selection criteria, outcome measures, statistical significance, and other variables often used to manipulate evidence …
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