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Can evidence-based medicine implicitly rely on current concepts of disease or does it have to develop its own definition?
- Correspondence to: Dr A Gerber Institute of Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Gleueler Strasse 176–178, 50935 Cologne/Koeln, Germany; gerber{at}igke.de
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Can evidence-based medicine implicitly rely on current concepts of disease or does it have to develop its own definition?
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- Received June 14, 2006
- Accepted July 20, 2006
- First published June 29, 2007.
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June 29, 2007
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