Evidence-based medicine and clinical practice

Evidence Based Medicine: Clinical Trials

Evidence based medicine is very important for success of modern medicine. It is the ongoing process of using the most reliable evidence from clinical studies, scientific understanding and medical practice to make the best possible medical choice for patients. Evidence based medicine is how medicine advances and how we get improvements in life expectancy and quality of life. It not only identifi...

Evidence based medicine in nuclear medicine practice; Part II: Appraising and applying the evidence

  As described in the first part of this article, Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is a growing part of medical practice which emphasizes on the best evidence. Finding this evidence by formulating an answerable question and searching strategies were described in the first part of this review. In this part, appraising the retrieved article (with the main focus on the diag...

excellence in clinical practice through the evidence-based medicine

Evidence Based Medicine- Implementation in Clinical Practice

Evidence based medicine is the conscientious and judicious use of current best evidence from clinical care research in the management of individual patients [1]. This requires a healthcare professional to construct a structured clinical question based on identified patient problems, critically evaluate the evidence available in medical literature, and then incorporate this information to delive...

Evidence based medicine in nuclear medicine practice; Part I: Introduction, asking answerable questions and searching for the best evidence

  Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is a new approach to patient management which incorporates best evidence with the clinical expertise of the health care providers. Although this approach has had a rapid growth in many clinical disciplines, its applications in radiology and nuclear medicine has not been addressed sufficiently. In this review EBM is briefly explained...