BACKGROUND The term "evidence-based medicine" (or EBM) was introduced about ten years ago, and there has been considerable debate about the value of EBM. However, this debate has sometimes been obscured by a lack of conceptual clarity concerning the nature and status of EBM. DISCUSSION First, we note that EBM proponents have obscured the current debate by defining EBM in an overly broad, inde...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a part of many medical school and residency curricula worldwide, but there is little research into the most effective methods to teach these skills. PURPOSE To evaluate whether a course on EBM utilizing adult learning principals leads to both immediate and short-term attitudinal, confidence, and behavioral change. METHODS Seventy-three (73) Intern...

YES. There are many points of agreement between our position and that of Drs Labrecque and Cauchon.1 We agree that data from scientific research are an important component of medicine and are one of the key distinguishing features of modern medicine. We agree that medicine needs to incorporate patient preferences and values and that clinicians should be expert and humane. However, we think it i...

“Evidence Based Practice” (EBP) is an approach to clinical service delivery that has become increasingly advocated in the past decade (McKibbon 1999). EBP was initially discussed in the field of medicine, and evidence-based medicine (EBM) received increasing attention in the 1990’s. EBM is defined as the “conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions ab...

bstract: Evidence-based public health (EBPH) has been proposed as a practice model that builds upon the success of evidence-based medicine (EBM). EBM has been described as a more scientific and systematic approach to the practice of medicine. It has enhanced medical training and practice in many settings. Both EBM and EBPH systematically use data, information, and scientific principles to enhan...

Familiarity with Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) concepts is low amongst key maternal and newborn care clinicians in Moldova. Simple interventions can increase the knowledge of EBM concepts there.

BACKGROUND Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been widely integrated into residency curricula, although results of randomized controlled trials and long term outcomes of EBM educational interventions are lacking. We sought to determine if an EBM workshop improved internal medicine residents' EBM knowledge and skills and use of secondary evidence resources. METHODS This randomized controlled tr...

In the past 10 years evidence - based medicine (EBM) has developed well in all aspects of allopathic medicine giving a new dimension to patient care including cost reduction and attention to medical ethics. With the public and medical community return to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the last two decades there has been a call for evidence - based CAM … in the same way that all...