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EBM is heavily based on quantifiable research and its results with the goal to achieve qualitative health care on the population level and on the level of the individual patient. The step from the population level to the individual in health care is a fairly complicated one and will be analysed in the following chapter, because it is also the most important one to free EBM from the criticism that it is not person-centred enough. In order to do so, it is necessary to look at how quantitative results are achieved and how the actual methodology of generating ‘good’ and ‘usable’ evidence functions.
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Schulte, MC. (2020). The methodology of evidence-based research.. In: Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged?. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05703-7_2
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