evidence-based medicine

English

Noun

evidence-based medicine (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Health care whose policies and practices are derived from the systematic, scientific study of the effectiveness of various treatments.
   • 2004, S. Timmermans and E. S. Kolker, "Evidence-Based Medicine and the Reconfiguration of Medical Knowledge," Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 45, extra issue, p. 177:

     In the last decade, the health care field has been under the spell of evidence-based medicine—a social movement aimed to strengthen the scientific base of health care and determine the effectiveness of clinical interventions.

Translations

health care

• Armenian: ապացուցողական բժշկություն (apacʻucʻoġakan bžškutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 循證醫學／循证医学 (xúnzhèng yīxué)

• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: näyttöön perustuva lääketiede

References

• “evidence-based medicine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.