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What is Evidence-based Practice

An approach that allows the practitioner to critically assess research data, clinical guidelines, and other information resources in order to correctly identify the clinical problem, apply the most high-quality intervention, and re-evaluate the outcome for future improvement.

--retrieved from :  https://www.ahrq.gov/topics/evidence-based-practice.html

 

“Evidence based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.  The practice of evidence based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.”  Sackett et al., 1996

--retrieved from:  https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/about/file/print/Evidence-Based_Practice_508.pdf
 

EBP: An Introduction