Trish Greenhalgh and Neal Maskrey on real evidence-based medicine

Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Health Care and Dean for Research Impact at Bart's and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK, while Neal Maskrey is Professor of Evidence-informed Decision Making at Keele University, UK. Both share a background in General Practice and are advocates of the campaign for real evidence-based medicine. Here Greenhalgh and Maskrey discuss the origins of evidence-based medicine, how it has gone astray, and what is needed to address some of the problems facing evidence-based practice today.

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