OBJECTIVE To assess the educational effectiveness on learning evidence based medicine of a handheld computer clinical decision support tool compared with a pocket card containing guidelines and a control. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING University of Hong Kong, 2001. PARTICIPANTS 169 fourth year medical students. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Factor and individual item scores from a...

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...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the status of health mangers’ evidence-based decision-making in kermanshah university of medial sciences in 2013. in this descriptive - analytical survey, research tool was a 33-item questionnaire based on kansas standard. the study sample was randomly drawn from among 180 experts, heads and deputies of health care centers in kermanshah province. the collec...

In today’s era, many of the decisions are based upon gut feeling, intuition, or instinct rather than relied on actual scientific data and facts. It’s important essential to do needful facts not feelings for best possible outcomes. Evidence decision making in field healthcare describes integration basic rules evidence as they evolve into implementation daily practices. dentistry, principles evid...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...