Sunday, April 13, 2014

Goal and Principles of EBM

Goal of EBM EBM has one goal: to improve the health of people through decisions that will maximise their health-related quality of life and life span. The decisions may be in relation to public health, health care, clinical care, nursing care or health policy. Principles of EBM Two fundamental principles include: (a) Hierarchy of evidence It says that evidence available in any clinical decision making can be arranged in order...

Evidence-Based Medicine (At a glance)

What is Evidence-based Medicine? EBM is a new paradigm of clinical practice and a process of lifelong learning, which emphasises a systematic and rigorous assessment of evidence for use in decision-making in health care in conjunction with expertise of the decision makers and expectations and values of the patients. Knowing About EBM (1-2-3-4) Knowing EBM is like knowing 1-2-3-4. EBM has  one goal,  two fundamental...