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evidence-based

evidence-based adjective: based only on actual evidence, rather than tradition, etc.

Adjective

evidence-based (not comparable)

  1. Based only on actual evidence, rather than tradition, etc.
    • In the last decade, the health care field has been under the spell of evidence-based medicine—a social movement aimed to strengthen the scientific base of health care and determine the effectiveness of clinical interventions.2004, S. Timmermans and E. S. Kolker, "Evidence-Based Medicine and the Reconfiguration of Medical Knowledge," Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 45, extra issue, p. 177
    • He told the GWPF Australia needed “evidence-based policy rather than policy-based evidence” and took aim at a 2013 study that showed that 97% of scientists agree humans are driving climate change, “as if scientific truth is determined by votes rather than facts”.2017 October 9, Karl Mathiesen, “Tony Abbott says climate change is 'probably doing good'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2020

Origin of evidence-based

From evidence + based.

Words formed from evidence-based

Questions about evidence-based

What does evidence-based mean?
Evidence-based means based only on actual evidence, rather than tradition, etc.
What part of speech is evidence-based?
Evidence-based is an adjective.

Words near evidence-based in the dictionary

  1. evidement
  2. evidements
  3. evidencable
  4. evidence
  5. evidence tampering
  6. evidence-based
  7. evidence-based medicine
  8. evidence-gathering
  9. evidenceable
  10. evidenced
  11. evidenceless

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