PEDIATRICS Vol. 105 No. 5 May 2000, pp. 1176-1177
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To the Editor.
Regarding Dr Bauchner's comments in an article published in your journal,1 I was struck by the author's concern that evidence-based medicine (EBM) "may be distracting from the important goal of finding ways to change physician behavior." Dr Bauchner discussed in a nice overview the rigors of the statistical methods incorporated in the definition of EBM. The components of the EBM definition neglected, however, concerns "making decisions ... about the care of individual patients."
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