The application of best, current scientific information to clinical practice.
An approach to practicing medicine that involves consideration of results of clinical trials that are relevant to the disease or condition being treated when making decisions about how to treat patients.
Explicit, conscientious use of the current, best evidence in determining how to improve patient care. Part of a wider movement to elevate uniformity and quality by streamlining processes.
the use of agreed-upon standards of evidence in making clinical decisions for treating individual patients or categories of patients.
the use of current best evidence from scientific and medical research to make decisions about the care of individual patients. It involves formulating questions relevant to the care of particular patients, searching the scientific and medical literature, identifying and evaluating relevant research results, and applying the findings to patients.
The practice of medicine or the use of healthcare interventions guided by or based on supportive scientific evidence. Also, the avoidance of those interventions shown by scientific evidence to be less efficacious or harmful.
is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. See also the article on EBM: What it is and what it isn't
An approach to practicing medicine in which the clinician is aware of the evidence in support of clinical practice, and the strength of that evidence.
A movement advocating the practice of medicine according to clinical guidelines, developed to reflect best-practice as captured from a meta-analysis of the clinical literature. See also: Clinical guideline, Meta-analysis, Protocol.
A set of procedures, pre-appraised resources and information tools that help practitioners apply evidence from research to the care of individual patients.
The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine requires the integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research and our patient's unique values and circumstances.
Medical best practices that are based on the actual, observed results of patient treatment as opposed to theory or generalized medical practice.
Conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence to make decisions about the care of individual patients.
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an attempt to more uniformly apply the standards of evidence gained from the scientific method, to certain aspects of medical practice. Specifically, EBM seeks to apply judgements about the inductive quality of evidence, to those aspects of medicine which depend on rational assessments of risks and benefits of treatments (including lack of treatment). According to the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, "Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients."