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> You don't need to say something is evidence-based, just show the evidence. No, "evidence-based medicine" is a term of art. Maybe you could argue that it took
by justinpombrio 9y ago
> You don't need to say something is evidence-based, just show the evidence.
No, "evidence-based medicine" is a term of art. Maybe you could argue that it took too generic of a name, but that's the word we have. From Wikipedia:
"Although all medicine based on science has some degree of empirical support, EBM goes further, classifying evidence by its epistemologic strength and requiring that only the strongest types (coming from meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and randomized controlled trials) can yield strong recommendations; weaker types (such as from case-control studies) can yield only weak recommendations."
- somebodynew 9y agoThat's a fair point and a good example of why an outright ban is bad. I don't know if the administration intended to impact the term evidence-based medicine or if it's just collateral damage from a perceived abuse of the prefix evidence-based, but it's only the latter that I would stylistically discourage.
- drcode 9y agoAs a doctor, it seems to me that at one time (maybe 10 years ago) it had a very specific meaning, but unfortunately the usage has degraded to the point where everything is "evidence based medicine" now, just like everything in business now is a "disruptor" or a "pivot".
- smcameron 9y ago"If only all medicine were evidence based medicine..." Careful what you wish for, I guess.
- thanksgiving 9y agoI just assumed that was the norm and we had terms like "experimental cancer treatment" for when the treatment is so new that we don't have enough evidence to back it up.
- JshWright 9y agoYeah, I find myself having to clarify every time I use that phrase that I'm using it in the "pre-buzzword" sense...