Question

Evidence-based recommendations differ from older recommendation processes in all of the following ways EXCEPT: Select the best answer

1. The role of expert opinion has been greatly reduced in evidence-based recommendations
2. Quantitative evidence is much more important as a basis for evidence-based recommendations.
3. Subjective judgments are removed in the development of evidence-based recommendations.
4. Uncertainties are made much more explicit in evidence-based recommendations.

Answer 1

C. Subjective judgments are removed in the development of evidence-based recommendations.

Evidence-based recommendations are nothing but a point of beginning that can be later transformed or modified by the clinical context. Hence all evidence-based decisions must incorporate patient preferences and clinical judgment. We know that the preference or priority of someone can have a different value or absolutely no value for someone else which makes subjective judgments an integral part of evryone's life. That is why during the development of evidence-based recommendations, Subjective judgments are not removed.