There is an interesting article on Emerald's "This month's journal highlights". "Pseudoevidence-based medicine:what it is and what to do about it". Clinical Governance, 2007, 12(1), p.42-52. Wally R. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.
The author says that "PBM can be defined as the practice of medicine based on falsehoods that are disseminated as true evidence, then adopted by unwitting and well-intentioned practitioners of EBM" and needs to be discovered, opposed and prevented. Physicians need to be more critical and vigilant in using research evidence.
The full text article is available via the HILO website if you have an Athens acount.
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