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Current Epistemological Problems in Evidence-based Medicine

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Evidence-based Practice in Medicine and Health Care

This chapter was first published as an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, April, 2004, published by BMJ Publishing Group and is reprinted with permission by BMJ Publishing Group.

Acknowledgement: The author thanks Ruud ter Meulen and Reidar Lie for their comments on a draft of this paper.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Instituut voor Gezondheidsethiek, Universiteit Maastricht, Universiteitssingel 40 (West), NL-6229, ER Maastricht, Germany

    Ruud ter Meulen

  2. Professur f. Medizinethik, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Klingsorstrasse 119, D-12203, Berlin, Germany

    Nikola Biller-Andorno

  3. Abt. Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Göttingen, Humboldtallee 36, D-37073, Goettingen, Germany

    Christian Lenk

  4. Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD, 20892-1156, USA

    Reidar K. Lie MD, PhD

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Ashcroft, R.E. (2005). Current Epistemological Problems in Evidence-based Medicine. In: ter Meulen, R., Biller-Andorno, N., Lenk, C., Lie, R.K. (eds) Evidence-based Practice in Medicine and Health Care. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27133-3_9

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