Open AccessChallenges for the practice of evidence-based medicine during COVID-19 pandemic (practice of evidence-based medicine in the new normal)
Author(s) -
PremanathFakirayya Kotur,
Pushpa Kotur
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/ija.ija_103_22
Subject(s) - pandemic , medicine , covid-19 , dilemma , evidence based medicine , scientific evidence , alternative medicine , health care , globe , evidence based practice , family medicine , disease , virology , pathology , economic growth , infectious disease (medical specialty) , philosophy , epistemology , outbreak , economics , ophthalmology
The forces which had kept the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement alive and ongoing have altered significantly during this coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic. There has been discrepancy in the demand and availability of scientific evidence. Deaths of thousands of people including physicians and other health-care workers (while offering COVID-19 care) across the globe have shaken the confidence of the physicians towards the practice of EBM. Journals started publishing in a hurry, incomplete and at times misleading scientific articles, about COVID-19, leaving the physicians in a dilemma about the evidence. The practitioner of EBM has had to turn helplessly to non-documentary evidences to treat COVID-19 patients. Apart from the evidence becoming hyperdynamic and volatile along with a reduction in its quality, the environment got polluted by political interference. In a nutshell, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the practice of EBM and its acceptance in multiple ways.