title: What's Wrong with Evidence-Based Medicine?
abstract: Medicine in the last decades of the twentieth century was ripe for a data sweep that would bring systematic analysis to treatment strategies that seemingly had stood the test of time but were actually unvalidated. Coalescing under the banner of evidence-based medicine, this process has helped to standardize care, minimize error, and promote patient safety. But with this advancement, something of the art of medicine has been lost.
authors.forename: Joseph J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Fins
mesh_terms: D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000188:drug therapy; D002568:Certification; D057189:Checklist / Q000592:standards; D002985:Clinical Protocols / Q000592:standards; D004071:Digitalis Glycosides / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000592:standards; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D033262:Narration; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D013044:Specialty Boards; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004071:Digitalis Glycosides