Dear Colleagues:
About EBM, I am defender of EBM, but in the topic about Patient values and preferences in order to involve the patients in the decision making process, I have a commentary :
Donīt you think that sometimes you can find barriers for example in developing countries? Example, when you are in front a patient who is analphabet or that belong to ethnic group whose lexicon we donīt know, with the risk that the patient take an erroneous decision by ignorance.
Some day I had listened:
"A man who is not informed, he can not have opinion, and a man who has not opinion, he can not take decision" .
I would like to receive your answers.
Sincerely.
Diana Rodriguez M.D.
Associate Professor Faculty of Medicine "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia".
Master in Clinical Epidemiology.
Member of INCLEN (International Clinical Epidemiology Network).
Lima , PERU.
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