TY - JOUR T1 - Politics of evidence JF - European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy JO - Eur J Hosp Pharm SP - 123 LP - 123 DO - 10.1136/ejhpharm-2021-002809 VL - 28 IS - 3 AU - Philip Wiffen Y1 - 2021/05/01 UR - http://ejhp.bmj.com/content/28/3/123.abstract N2 - Evidence as expressed in the framework of evidence-based medicine has always caused controversy. In the early days, it was resisted by senior and experienced clinicians who did not like to be told what to do—even if they were wrong! On the face of it, the well-known definition by Sackett seems sensible and benign. Published 25 years ago, it stated ‘Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients’.1 In the current pandemic, we might want to amend the last part to ‘about the care of … Correspondence to Professor Philip Wiffen, Pain Research Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK; pwiffen{at}oxfordsrs.org.uk ER -