Evidence-Based Medicine in Wound Care

Evidence Based Medicine and Herbal Medicine

  Evidence based medicine (EBM) can be found as far back as the 1940s. However, it was in 1972 that the concept first came into play, originated by Professor Archie Cochrane, in his book, Effectiveness & Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services. This was the foundation for evidence based research, and in 1992 a facility was funded by the UK government, with the aim of performing r...

Evidence- based medicine performance among health care providers in Iranian hospitals: A nationwide survey

Background: Evidence- Based Medicine (EBM) refers to the ability and skill in the use and integration of the best evidence obtained from repeatable bias-free clinical trials with the patients’ preferences and conditions. Considering this fact that few large-scale studies have been done in this field in Iran, the present study aimed at comprehensively reviewing the status of EBM performanc...

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 wound care: in support of the Renaissance.

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...