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From evidence-based medicine to patient-centered medicine: legal medicine considerations about professional responsibility

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The adaptation of the guidelines to the specific case is not easy and it requires a significant effort by of the physician. We found many criticism, but particularly a logic (the patient-centered medicine) most appropriate to reasoning of legal medicine. The patient-centered medicine is a medicine that takes into account the individual case because it best meets the needs of law and with which the evidence based medicine must be integrated.

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    Francesco Massoni, Pasquale Ricci, Ugo Redi, Lidia Ricci & Serafino Ricci

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Massoni, F., Ricci, P., Redi, U. et al. From evidence-based medicine to patient-centered medicine: legal medicine considerations about professional responsibility. J Med Pers 12, 99–103 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12682-014-0183-4

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