Has scientific medicine and the EBM program failed?
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- Wilfor Aguirre Quispe(corresponding author),
- Yahaira Becerra Becerra,
- Jorge García Mostajo,
- Mariela Huerta Rosario,
- Andrely Cristina Huerta Rosario
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- Red de Eficacia Clínica y Sanitaria (REDECS),
- Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima,
- Hospital Geriátrico Militar,
- Hospital Guillermo Kaelin de la Fuente,
- Hospital Regional José Alfredo Mendoza Olavarria Jamo II-2
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EnglishPages from-to (Number of pages)
Pages 198-202 (5 pages)Journal (Volume, Issue Number)
Educacion Medica (Volume 19)Publication milestones
- Published - 10/2018
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1575-1813Publication IDs
- Scopus: 85019764433
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.