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The fiasco of evidence-based medicine exposed by the covid-19 pandemic

Joaquim Couto, Andrew Miles

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Algorithms, clinical practice guidelines, COVID-19, evidence-based medicine (EBM), meta-analyses, pathophysiological principles, person-centered care, RCTs, tenets of modern medicine, uncertainty

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v8i2.1804

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