La no evidencia de la “evidence". A veinte años del inicio de su uso.
In view of the widespread wrong use in spanish of the erroneous translation of Evidence-based Medicine as “medicina basada en la evidencia", comments are made from the general concepts of phylosophy, particularly from the chapter of “semiotics", which demonstrate the fallacious use of such a wrong t...
| Published in: | Ginecología y Obstetricia de México Vol. 82; no. 12; pp. 816 - 828 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lth&AN=99916750&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: lth uiTerm: 99916750 longDbName: MedicLatina uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03009041 7KM jtl: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México issn: 03009041 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: dic2014 vid: 82 iid: 12 pid: 20840 pub: Federacion Mexicana de Ginecologia y Obstetricia artinfo: ui: 99916750 ppf: 816 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.8MB tig: atl: La no evidencia de la “evidence". A veinte años del inicio de su uso. aug: au: Vázquez-Benítez, Efraín affil: Hospital Español, México DF su: Translating errors Medical practice Certainty Semantics methodology Evidence-based medicine History sug: subj: Translating errors Medical practice Certainty Semantics methodology Evidence-based medicine History keyword: Evidence Interpretetation Methodology Semiotics certeza evidencia interpretación metodología semiótica ab: In view of the widespread wrong use in spanish of the erroneous translation of Evidence-based Medicine as “medicina basada en la evidencia", comments are made from the general concepts of phylosophy, particularly from the chapter of “semiotics", which demonstrate the fallacious use of such a wrong translation and the dangers of its indiscriminate use of this procedure, that may be very valuable in its methodology as proposed by its founders and understood by englsh-speaking physicians, making emphasis in the fact that it is just a method to obtain a better level of certainty and not a system that should replace the criteria employed in traditional medicine. Examples are offered of several serious mistakes that have been made by the erroneous application of results offered even in articles published in english. Finally, a review is made of articles published in five prestigious journals and the difficulty of interpreting their contents as a source of clinically useful information. A novel procedure is proposed as a possible alternative for assessing medical literature. Ante la difusión y progresivo uso de la llamada evidence-based medicine se hace una revisión filológica de la errónea traducción al castellano como “medicina basada en la evidencia", señalando el diverso significado que las palabras “evidence" y “evidencia" tienen en los respectivos idiomas. Se recurre a diversos puntos de filosofía y semiótica que fundamentan el hecho de que ese error de traducción puede conducir a interpretaciones erróneas y a una inapropiada aplicación a la clínica de lo publicado. Se ejemplifican y comentan variados artículos publicados empleando esta metodología y las dificultades que se encuentran en su elucidación derivadas de dicho error de traducción. Se ejemplifica con una revisión de artículos analizados críticamente al respecto y lo endeble que puede ser su validez a la vista de lo anterior. Finalmente, se propone un nuevo criterio de juicio que puede emplearse para obtener de ellos una certeza adecuada para su aplicación en la clínica diaria. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Essay src: R language: Spanish refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Ginecología y Obstetricia de México is the property of Federacion Mexicana de Ginecologia y Obstetricia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México holder: Federacion Mexicana de Ginecologia y Obstetricia dt: @attributes: year: 2014 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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