Editorial
SCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE IN MEDICINE: EVIDENCE-BASED VS. EVIDENCE-BIASED MEDICINE
Miro Jakovljević
; University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Department of Psychiatry, Zagreb, Croatia
Ljerka Ostojić
; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
The concept of evidence-based medicine (EBM), as the highest standard of health care, came into existence in 1990s to promote a systematic approach to helping clinicians in their practice to be guided by the best available scientific evidence. However, there has been an increasing number of warning reports “that in modern research, misrepresented, false and unuseful findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims In spite of the huge scientific progress, pseudoscience and associated evidence biased medicine represent a serious threat to the concept of the EBM. Effective education in medicine, proper research motivation, sound systems and creative thinking and culture of scientific dialogue may significantly contribute to better science and evidence-based medicine. The seven key words of good science, research and publishing are: integrity, motivation, capacity, understanding, knowledge, experience, and creativity.
Keywords
science in medicine; evidence-based medicine; pseudoscience; evidence-biased medicine
Hrčak ID:
264261
URI
Publication date:
18.10.2016.
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