{"id":1918,"date":"2018-06-14T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=1918"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:15:21","slug":"ebm-intro-p2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-medicine\/ebm-intro-p2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Evidence-Based Medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>After thinking about your own definition, here&#8217;s how the literature defines EBM:<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been described as &#8220;the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.&#8221;<sup>1<\/sup><span>\u00a0<\/span>It is a method of solving clinical problems that stresses the examination of clinical research rather than relying on intuition and clinical experience alone.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>The need for EBM<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical research is continually discovering improved treatment methods and therapies<\/li>\n<li>Research findings are often delayed in being implemented into clinical practice<\/li>\n<li>Clinicians must stay current with changing therapies<\/li>\n<li>Evidence-based practice has been shown to keep clinicians up to date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Sackett D, Rosenberg W, Gray J, Haynes R, Richardson W.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2349778\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn&#8217;t.<\/a>\u00a0BMJ 1996; 312:71-2.<br \/>\n2. Guyatt Gordon; Drummond Rennie.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/buprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/search?query=any,contains,Users%27%20guides%20to%20the%20medical%20literature%20:%20a%20manual%20for%20evidence-based%20clinical%20practice.&amp;tab=default_tab&amp;search_scope=default_scope&amp;vid=BU&amp;lang=en_US&amp;offset=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Users&#8217; guides to the medical literature : a manual for evidence-based clinical practice.<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>Chicago: AMA Press; 2002. p. 706.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-medicine\/ebm-intro-p3\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After thinking about your own definition, here&#8217;s how the literature defines EBM: Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been described as &#8220;the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.&#8221;1\u00a0It is a method of solving clinical problems that stresses the examination of clinical research rather than relying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":1914,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1918\/revisions\/4172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}