"Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients" - Sackett et al.
It is is a process which combines the individual doctor's expertise, the best available external clinical evidence and the patient's preferences when making decisions about the patient's health care.
This section is based on the EBM group's BMJ leader in 1996, which was also used in the introduction to their book.
BMJ 13th Jan 1996 vol 312 71-2 Sackett DL, Rosenberg WMC, Gray JAM, & Richardson WS. Evidence-based medicine: what it is and what it is not. Evidence-based Medicine: How to practice and teach EBM (same authors) Churchill Livingstone 1997.
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