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24.02.2017 | What's New in Intensive Care
Evidence or belief-based medicine? Ten doubts
verfasst von:
Luciano Gattinoni, John J. Marini, Michael Quintel
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2017
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Excerpt
Our practice of medicine is based on beliefs, which are the positive mental attitudes towards the likelihood of something being true or, better yet, of advantage for patients, with or without evidence that this is the case. Beliefs that have been substantiated by convincingly supportive clinical data form the core of ‘evidence-based medicine’. Unfortunately, such evidence contributes to only a fraction of our beliefs. Among the hundreds of factors which condition those beliefs, we briefly discuss the ones we consider more relevant in intensive care. …