Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is defined as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." Trisha Greenhalgh and Anna Donald define it more specifically as "the use of mathematical estimates of the risk of benefit and harm, derived from high-quality research on population samples, to inform clinical decision-making in the diagnosis, investigation or management of individual patients." To broaden its application from individual patients to health care services in general and to allied health professions, it is also known as Evidence Informed Healthcare or Evidence Based Health Care or Evidence-Based Practice.In practice, clinicians contextualize the best available research evidence by integrating it with their individual clinical expertise and their patient's values and expectations. The incorporation of patient values and clinical expertise in EBM partly recognizes the fact that many aspects of health care depend on individual factors. These include variations in individual physiology and pathology, and quality-of-life and value-of-life judgments. These factors are only partially subjected to scientific inquiry and sometimes even cannot be assessed in controlled experimental settings. Application of available evidence is therefore dependent on patient circumstances and preferences, and remains subject to input from personal, political, philosophical, religious, ethical, economic, and aesthetic values. This has led to a shift from the original term Evidence 'Based' Medicine to Evidence 'Informed' Healthcare, to emphasize that decisions need not necessarily be based or complying with the evidence.The broad field of EBM would include rigorous and systematic analysis of published literature to synthesize high quality evidence, such as systematic reviews. It could also be referring to a medical ‘movement’, where advocates work to popularize the method and usefulness of the practice of EBM in the public, patient communities, educational institutions, and continuing education of practicing professionals.. }
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- Evidence-based_medicine abstract "Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is defined as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." Trisha Greenhalgh and Anna Donald define it more specifically as "the use of mathematical estimates of the risk of benefit and harm, derived from high-quality research on population samples, to inform clinical decision-making in the diagnosis, investigation or management of individual patients." To broaden its application from individual patients to health care services in general and to allied health professions, it is also known as Evidence Informed Healthcare or Evidence Based Health Care or Evidence-Based Practice.In practice, clinicians contextualize the best available research evidence by integrating it with their individual clinical expertise and their patient's values and expectations. The incorporation of patient values and clinical expertise in EBM partly recognizes the fact that many aspects of health care depend on individual factors. These include variations in individual physiology and pathology, and quality-of-life and value-of-life judgments. These factors are only partially subjected to scientific inquiry and sometimes even cannot be assessed in controlled experimental settings. Application of available evidence is therefore dependent on patient circumstances and preferences, and remains subject to input from personal, political, philosophical, religious, ethical, economic, and aesthetic values. This has led to a shift from the original term Evidence 'Based' Medicine to Evidence 'Informed' Healthcare, to emphasize that decisions need not necessarily be based or complying with the evidence.The broad field of EBM would include rigorous and systematic analysis of published literature to synthesize high quality evidence, such as systematic reviews. It could also be referring to a medical ‘movement’, where advocates work to popularize the method and usefulness of the practice of EBM in the public, patient communities, educational institutions, and continuing education of practicing professionals.".