Evidence-based medicine resources for clinicians

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Evidence-based medicine

Illness diagnosis, treatment and prevention based on data collection and analysis

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Evidence-based medicine (EBM), sometimes known within healthcare as evidence-based practice (EBP),^[1] is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research."^[2] The aim of EBM is to integrate the experience of the clinician, the values of the patient, and the best available scientific information to guide decision-making about clinical management. The term was originally used to describe an approach to teaching the practice of medicine and improving decisions by individual physicians about individual patients.^[3]

The EBM Pyramid is a tool that helps in visualizing the hierarchy of evidence in medicine, from least authoritative, like expert opinions, to most authoritative, like systematic reviews.^[4]

Adoption of evidence-based medicine is necessary in a human rights-based approach to public health and a precondition for accessing the right to health.^[5]

1. ^ Abela, Stefan (13 January 2023). "Evidence-Based Practice in the NHS". Leadership and Management in Healthcare. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-031-21024-2. Evidence-based practice (EBP) sometimes referred to as evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an approach to practice which allows clinicians to optimise their decisions using evidence
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3. ^ Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group (November 1992). "Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine". JAMA. 268 (17): 2420–2425. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.684.3783. doi:10.1001/JAMA.1992.03490170092032. PMID 1404801.
4. ^ "Evidence-Based Medicine Pyramid". Med Scholarly. Archived from the original on 3 December 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
5. ^ Beracochea, Elvira; Weinstein, Corey; Evans, Dabney (1 November 2010). Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health. Springer Publishing Company. pp. 202, 209. ISBN 978-0-8261-0570-7. People cannot be healthy when governments do not respect universal human rights and implement evidence-based health policies that would realize the rights of their citizens....Respecting human rights implies the need to provide effective and evidence-based strategies.

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