Empirical evaluation of fundamental principles of evidence-based medicine: a meta-epidemiological study
Benjamin Djulbegovic, MD, PhD1, Muhammad Muneeb Ahmed, MS2, Iztok Hozo, PhD3, Despina Koletsi, DDS4, Lars Hemkens, MD5, Amy Price, PhD6, Rachel Riera,MD7, Paulo Nadanovsky,MD8, Ana Paula Pires dos Santos,MD9, Daniela Melo,MD10, Ranjan Pathak,MD11, Rafael Leite Pacheco,MD12, Luis Eduardo Fontes,MD13 and David Nunan,PhD14
1 Beckman Research Institute, Department of Computational & Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
2Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
3Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana, USA
4Clinic of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Center of Dental Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
5Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
6Anesthesia Informatics and Media Lab, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
7Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Brazil (Unifesp), São Paulo, Brazil
8Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Health, National School of Public Health, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) - Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Social Medicine, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).
9Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).
10Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil.
11Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA.
12Centro Universitário São Camilo. Researcher at the Center of Health Technology Assessment. Hospital Sirio-Libanês - São Paulo, Brazil
13 Department of Intensive Care, and Emergency Medicine at Faculdade de Medicina de Petrópolis, in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
14Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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Correspondence: Benjamin Djulbegovic, MD, PhD
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