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Will COVID-19 be evidence-based medicine's nemesis?
Dr Trisha Greenhalgh discusses how the classical approach of a clinical trial to determine the efficacy of an intervention is not feasible or even possible in the time of a pandemic. Population-wide public health efforts, such as wearing face masks are considered of low methodological quality in evidence-based medicine. Pandemics however demand rapid policy implementation to protect the spread of infection without delay.
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Citation: (2020) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 17(6) July 2020. PLoS Med 17(6): ev17.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v17.i06
Published: July 17, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Dr Trisha Greenhalgh discusses how the classical approach of a clinical trial to determine the efficacy of an intervention is not feasible or even possible in the time of a pandemic. Population-wide public health efforts, such as wearing face masks are considered of low methodological quality in evidence-based medicine. Pandemics however demand rapid policy implementation to protect the spread of infection without delay.
Image Credit: leo2014 Pixabay