of Interpreting Clinical Trials

A s I am sure you know, evi-dence-based practice (EBP) is the new mantra for health-care practice, including audiology. For EBP, research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values and preferences should be integrated into clinical decision making, with the assumption that this will result in selection of the optimal inter-vention—and thus will yield the best clinical outcomes (see Wong and Hickson, 2012, for information on EBP in audiology). As a clinician you have clinical expertise, and the ability to assess the values of each of your patients, but what researc