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EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
This unit links to Unit 8, which focused on acute care. It looks at the role of evidence- based medicine in delivering high-quality care and the role of clinical guidelines in helping to bring this about. This unit also outlines key terms used in evidence-based medicine.
Skills focus
Reading recognizing the writer’s stance and level of confidence or tentativeness inferring implicit ideas
Vocabulary focus
‘neutral’ and ‘marked’ words fixed phrases from medicine fixed phrases from academic English