Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) are clinically relevant research aggregated sometimes from the basic sciences of medicine, but especially from patient -centered clinical research into accuracy and precision of diagnostic test.
What constitutes EBM?
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) requires the integration of the best test research evidence with our clinical expertise and our clinical patient values and circumstances.
Clinical Expertise
The ability to use our clinical skills and past experience to rapidly identify each patient’s unique health state and diagnosis, his or her individual risks and benefits of potential interventions/exposures/diagnostic tests, and his or her personal values and expectations. Moreover, clinical expertise is required to integrate evidence with patient values and circumstances.
Patient Values
This refers to unique preferences, concerns and expectations that each patient brings to a clinical encounter and that must be integrated into shared clinical decisions if they are to serve the patient. By patient circumstances we mean the patient's individual clinical state and the clinical setting.
Best Research Evidence
