Abstract

SIMONOVIS, N; BADDOUR P, Y; GARCIA, S  and  MADERA, C. ¿Qué significa Medicina Basada en Evidencia?. RFM [online]. 2001, vol.24, n.2, pp.120-122. ISSN 0798-0469.

This paper critically review the meaning of evidence-based medicine. The study begins with Thomas Kuhn’s definition of paradigm and, according to the context it provides, the reason why evidence based medicine constitutes a change of paradigm. After an evaluation of the two main dissenting perspectives of the above mentioned paradigm it goes on to solve the controversy by means of an analysis of the phenomenology of knowledge and the etymology of the word evidence. It then concludes with the authors own position.

Keywords : Evidence based medicine; Paradigm; Evidence; Clinical investigation.