‘A Medical Doctor in Politics’. Els Borst-Eilers and the Rise of Evidence-Based Healthcare in the Netherlands

This article examines how Els Borst-Eilers, Dutch minister of Health between 1994 and 2002, pursued the cause of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) – an influential movement in the medical field that gained a particularly firm foothold in the Netherlands. It focusses on the way Borst-Eilers operated wit...

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Main Authors: Nele Beyens, Timo Bolt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2017-03-01
Series:BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review
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Online Access:https://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/6552