Patiëntvoorkeur versus evidencebased medicine: Hadden de pioniers van EBM oog voor wat de patiënt wil?

Casper G. Schoemaker; Trudy Van Der Weijden

Patiëntvoorkeur versus evidencebased medicine: Hadden de pioniers van EBM oog voor wat de patiënt wil?

Translated title of the contribution: Patient preferences versus evidence-based medicine: Did the pioneers of evidence-based medicine take the patient's preferences into account?

Casper G. Schoemaker^*, Trudy Van Der Weijden

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A patient's values and preferences are one of the three 'pillars' of evidence-based medicine (EBM). How can we explain that this one pillar has hardly been elaborated in the EBMliterature? Were the EBM pioneers really committed to the patient's preferences, were they not ready yet, or were they not committed at all? In key international EBM publications dated between 1985 and 2000, we only found sympathetic, yet vague, statements lacking concrete content. In the Netherlands, a Health Council report set the tone with a sense of fear for 'consumer medicine'. In addition to an overly optimistic view of the past, in 2014 Greenhalgh sketched a vision of the future of EBM in which the sympathetic comments about patient preferences are finally made concrete. The EBM movement has already successfully adapted to social developments in the past; therefore, there is reason for optimism.

Translated title of the contribution	Patient preferences versus evidence-based medicine: Did the pioneers of evidence-based medicine take the patient's preferences into account?
Original language	Dutch
Journal	Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
Volume	160
Issue number	24
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Evidence-Based Medicine/trends
Humans
Netherlands
Patient Preference
Physician-Patient Relations

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