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work_jcxie5o4kbbd7bhanq3ss4kjf4	John Worrall	Evidence: philosophy of science meets medicine	2010	7	.pdf	application/pdf	7647	458	65	controlled trial, evidence-based medicine, details, the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement has got itself into a mess – or so it name in medicine is that supplied by a properly controlled randomized clinical trial (RCT). The only scientific evidence in medicine comes from clinical 'Bible' instructs an evidence-based practitioner facing a therapeutic decision to comb the clinical trials literature for evidence relative to her problem but if she finds an apparently relevant study and similar groups and hence that a positive result in a properly randomized trial is sufficient for a treatment to be declared effective. more effective than the treatment given to the control group (often claim that the RCT provides evidence for – let's assume for current does the evidence from the trial 'generalize' to the 'target population' (roughly the set of patients that doctors are likely to prescribe cases in which we cannot or do not have RCT evidence and	./cache/work_jcxie5o4kbbd7bhanq3ss4kjf4.pdf	./txt/work_jcxie5o4kbbd7bhanq3ss4kjf4.txt