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Editorial
. 2020 Jun 30;17(6):e1003266.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003266. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Will COVID-19 be evidence-based medicine's nemesis?

Trisha Greenhalgh  1
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Editorial

Will COVID-19 be evidence-based medicine's nemesis?

Trisha Greenhalgh. PLoS Med. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1. Ogilvie et al’s model of two complementary modes of evidence generation: evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence.
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