for Medical Practice WHAT IS EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE (EBM)?

(EBM), stated that EBM is “the conscientious and judi-cious use of current best evidence from clinical care re-search in the management of individual patients ” (1). In this definition: Conscientious use implies that physicians review ar-ticles about clinical research and apply this information to clinical decision making. Current best evidence from clinical care research im-plies that physicians systematically appraise the meth-ods and results of clinical research articles using EBM tools. With these tools, physicians can separate the “wheat from the chaff ” when reading medical journals and identify poorly designed studies that will produce biased results and should be “tossed out ” before being applied to patient care