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 ...

Most of existing traffic simulation efforts focus on urban regions with a coarse two-dimensional representation; relatively few studies have been conducted to simulate realistic three-dimensional traffic flows on a large, complex road web in rural scenes. In this paper, we present a novel agent-based approach called accident-avoidance full velocity difference model (abbreviated as AA-FVDM) to s...

Clinical practice guidelines, based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, have positively impacted care of patients with cardiovascular disease, since their introduction over 30 years ago. Guidelines both ‘guide’ clinical practice and inform national and local healthcare policy. Now, a new definition for trustworthy guidelines —supported by explicit standards—is a major advance widely reco...

background: back pain is a common patients' complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). for a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. this study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral mri requests in patients with back pai...