The rise and fall of EBM

摘要

The rise of Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) has been one of the moreremarkable phenomena of the British health scene during the 1990s.Tremendous advances have been made in establishing the EBM brandname, obtaining massive government funding, manoeuvring to a positionof unchallenged authority within the NHS managerial and politicalhierarchy (and its priesthood among the BM) editorial staff)- andpromoting EBM as a marketing slogan for lucrative conferences,courses, books, journals. People and organizations.