Evidence-based Medicine - Application of The Evidence Based Model On Other Public Policy Matters

Application of The Evidence Based Model On Other Public Policy Matters

There has been discussion of applying what has been learned from EBM to public policy. In his 1996 inaugural speech as President of the Royal Statistical Society, Adrian Smith held out evidence-based medicine as an exemplar for all public policy. He proposed that "evidence-based policy" should be established for education, prisons and policing policy and all areas of government.

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