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evidence-based medicine

evidence-based medicine noun: health care whose policies and practices are derived from the systematic, scientific study of the effectiveness of various treatments.

Noun

evidence-based medicine (uncountable)

  1. Health care whose policies and practices are derived from the systematic, scientific study of the effectiveness of various treatments.
    • Holonyms: scientific medicine < medicine
    • 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

Questions about evidence-based medicine

What does evidence-based medicine mean?
Evidence-based medicine means health care whose policies and practices are derived from the systematic, scientific study of the effectiveness of various treatments.
What part of speech is evidence-based medicine?
Evidence-based medicine is a noun.

Words near evidence-based medicine in the dictionary

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

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