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 principles, 
• three components and 
• four steps. 

One goal is 

• to improve quality of clinical care; 

Two principles are 

• hierarchy of evidence and 
• insufficiency of evidence alone in decision-making; 

Three components are 

• evidence, 
• expertise and 
• expectations of patients (triple Es); and 

four steps are 

• ask, 
• acquire,
• assess and 
• apply (4 As).

In Summary