Longitudinal Teaching of Evidence-Based Decision Making

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees

The Feasibility of Evidence- based Decision Making in a Toxicology Emergency Case

Evidence- Based Medicine (EBM) aims to bring the best available evidence into clinical practice.  Different clinical methods of education such as in-patient rounds, follow up rounds, out-patients rounds, group sessions, grand rounds, lectures, and journal clubs could be held by EBM approach. The current text presents two interrelated case reports; a case report of EBM decision making in an emer...

Challenging Nature of Evidence-Based Decision Making

Challenging Nature of Evidence-Based Decision Making What is the drug of choice for condition x? is among the most commonly asked questions in primary care. Reflecting the complexity of prescribing decisions, answering this question requires a difficult trade-off between the benefits and harms of multiple drugs for a given condition. The principles of evidence-based medicine suggest that prescr...

Model of evidence-based dental decision making.

Shared decision making empowers patients as informed consumers, helping them to make clinical decisions that optimize their personal oral health. Evidence-based dentistry supports this process by providing best evidence that, when presented in visual and interactive formats, focuses consultation time on treatment or therapy options and their trade-offs. Currently, an explosion of evidence and t...

Clinical decision making based on evidence.

2 urgeons make decisions with patients about when to operate and when to recommend nonoperative are on a daily basis. We must decide when to invesigate and which investigations to order. If it is to be urgery, the decision on which operation is the best hould, ideally, be based on prospective, randomized ontrolled studies, free of bias and relevant to the linical decision. However, in many case...