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Evidence‐based medicine: can we trust the evidence?
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.f7170
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , alternative medicine , evidence based medicine , medicine , family medicine , psychology , medical education , computer science , pathology , machine learning
More and more nowadays vets are being encouraged to apply evidence‐based medicine. But can the results of research be taken at face value? Giving the plenary Wooldridge memorial lecture at this year's BVA Congress, Fiona Godlee, Editor‐in‐Chief of the BMJ , discussed why – and how – the results of medical studies should be questioned.