Has scientific medicine and the EBM program failed?

Carlos Alva Díaz; Wilfor Aguirre Quispe; Yahaira Becerra Becerra; Jorge García Mostajo; Mariela Huerta Rosario; Andrely Cristina Huerta Rosario

doi:10.1016/j.edumed.2017.04.003

Has scientific medicine and the EBM program failed?

Translated title of the contribution: Has scientific medicine and the EBM program failed?

Carlos Alva Díaz, Wilfor Aguirre Quispe, Yahaira Becerra Becerra, Jorge García Mostajo, Mariela Huerta Rosario, Andrely Cristina Huerta Rosario

Medicina humana

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Abstract

According to its critics and detractor, scientific medicine and the Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) program have failed. EBM is a program that seeks to respond to the need to systematise medical knowledge, improve the decision-making process in health and thus improve health systems. Despite its wide dissemination, it is not without criticism, from the questioning of its positivist philosophical approach, to its strictly biological and of effectiveness vision, and to the undeniable conflict of interests of biomedical research, which is mostly financed by the pharmaceutical industry. However, despite its limitations, there is still a long way to go, and its scope and benefits are already demonstrated in the current making of medical decisions.

Translated title of the contribution	Has scientific medicine and the EBM program failed?
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	198-202
Number of pages	5
Journal	Educacion Medica
Volume	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edumed.2017.04.003
State	Published - Oct 2018

Keywords

Evidence-based medicine
Medical decisions
Positivist philosophical approach
Scientific medicine

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