Health care professionals are increasingly required to base clinical decisions on the best available evidence. Evidence based medicine (EBM) is a systematic approach to clinical problem solving which allows the integration of the best available research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. This paper explains the concept of EBM and introduces the five step EBM model: formulation of answerable clinical questions; searching for evidence; critical appraisal; applicability of evidence; evaluation of performance. The concept of evidence based medicine (EBM), defined as the “integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values”,1 has been gaining popularity in the past decade. The practice of EBM involves a process of lifelong self directed learning in which caring for patients creates the need for important information about clinical and other health care issues. EBM recognises that the research literature is constantly changing.2What the evidence points to as the best method of practice today may change next month or next year. The task of staying current, although never easy, is made much simpler by incorporating the tools of EBM such as the ability to track down and critically appraise evidence, and incorporate it into everyday clinical practice. Interested? Read More at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3789163/
