Dear editor The concept of evidence based medicine (EBM) involves a systematic approach for integration of best available research evidence into medical decision making for physicians, medical trainees and researchers. The EBM process includes five essential steps: formulating the questions, searching for evidence, appraising the evidence, and applying and evaluating the results (1). In a descr...

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Shared Medical Decision Making (SDM) are changing the nature of health care decisions. It is broadly accepted that health care decisions require the integration of research evidence and individual preferences. These approaches are justified on both efficacy grounds (that evidence based practice and Shared Decision Making should lead to better health outcomes an...

Evidence based medicine has had an increasing impact on primary care over the last few years. In the UK it has influenced the development of guidelines and quality standards for clinical practice and the allocation of resources for drug treatments and other interventions. It has informed the thinking around patient involvement in decision making with the concept of evidence based patient choice...

PLAIN ENGLISH SUMMARY Within health services research in the UK, there has been growing interest in evidence-based medicine (EBM) and patient and public involvement (PPI) in research. These two movements have a common goal of improving the quality and transparency of clinical decision making. So far, there has been relatively little discussion about how these two movements might relate to each ...

473 There is a need for occupational therapy to conceive of evidence-based practice in a way that reflects the contextualized nature of occupational engagement. In occupational therapy, we should resist following the lead of experts in evidence-based medicine, such as Sackett and his colleagues (Rosenberg & Donald, 1995; Sackett, Rosenberg, Gray, Haynes, & Richardson, 1996; Sackett, Straus, Ric...

BACKGROUND Informed and shared decision-making require competences for both partners - healthcare professionals and patients. There is a lack of training courses in evidence-based medicine for patients and counsellors. OBJECTIVE We investigated feasibility, acceptability and the potential effects of a 2 x 2.5 days training course on critical health competences in patients, patient counsellors...

Decision analysis has become an increasingly popular decision-making tool with a multitude of clinical applications. Incorporating patient and expert preferences with available literature, it allows users to apply evidence-based medicine to make informed decisions when confronted with difficult clinical scenarios. A decision tree depicts potential alternatives and outcomes involved with a given...

At its core, evidence-based medicine is a systemic approach to utilizing the best scientific information to make decisions regarding diagnosis and treatment for individual patients. It involves learning a set of skills to access and evaluate the medical literature and select the most accurate information for use in clinical decision-making. The term " evidence-based medicine " (EBM) originated ...

BACKGROUND Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is increasingly being applied to inform clinical decision-making in orthopaedic surgery. Despite the promotion of EBM in Orthopaedic Surgery, the adoption of results from high quality clinical research seems highly unpredictable and does not appear to be driven strictly by randomized trial data. The objective of this study was to pilot a survey to determ...

JAMA: Evidence-basedmedicineoncewas criticized as “cookbook medicine.” Do you still encounter thatkindofcriticism,and if so, how do you counter it? DR GUYATT: One of my favorite talks to give is that evidence-based medicine is patient-centered medicine, so there are a number of things to point out. Perhaps most important is that evidence itself never tells you what to do, never. It’s always evi...