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According to Dr. David Sackett (1996) Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.”

Evidence-based practice is extremely important in health care. It is not only important to know how to perform a certain skill, but why it should be done. There needs to be a standard of care and providers need to know the best way of doing things based on evidence. The article mentions that in the 20th century, many medial decisions were made on doctor assessment and preference (Brower, 2017). Many physicians were practicing dramatically different when compared with one another, which led to the realization that changes needed to be made and Evidence-based practice began to develop. Even though Evidence-based practices have been in play for a while, there is a gap between understanding and applying evidence-based

The Atlanta-based internist is concerned with how recipients and providers of medical services receive and make health advice and recommendations, respectively. He rues the current practice of medicine, which now pays more emphasis to data or evidence: anything that the data reveals are immediately taken as hard science, with the results taken from studies that claim to “represent a consistently reliable representation of the real world of human beings” i.e., those who do not participate in the studies. For Paul, the data or studies could mean

Evidence based medicine is a type of medical practice which involves decision making based on the evidence from the research, patient values, clinical experience to provide better quality healthcare services without any errors.

Over the last two decades, there has been noteworthy shift in the way that medicinal services professional use evidence from their exploratory research in their practice. The concept of evidence based clinical practice has turned out to be a piece of the dialect of clinicians, managers, researchers and policy makers in health administration throughout the world. In spite of the fact that the thought of evidence based health service is a long way from new and the extent of its uptake in clinical practice is uneven, the dissemination and appropriation of the thoughts connected with evidence base medicinal services during the twentieth century give a noteworthy demonstration of their power and their significance to the present issues and challenges of health services frameworks in many countries (Davis & Nutley, 1999).

To enable them to do this they need to understand recent research, always weighing up the evidence to their own knowledge base, and expertise. Scientific research enables an approach, to evolving knowledge and practice, and in this way, one can test out their beliefs to either prove or, alternatively, to attempt to disprove them. Another name for critical practice is ‘evidence based practice’. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an interdisciplinary approach to clinical practice. Its basic principles are, that all practical decisions made, should be based on research studies, and that these research studies, are selected and interpreted, according to some specific norms characteristics for EBP (Birger, 2011). Using EBP gives practitioners the reassurance that they are giving the patient the correct treatment, and not just giving them what they believe is correct, whilst using their own current knowledge only. Practitioners make decisions every day, and for some, these decisions can be life threatening. This enables the practitioner to know, that what they are doing is the right thing to do. Marsh et al. (2005) argues that all practitioners’ actions and their final decision on medication and/or treatment should come from research and proven theory. They tell us, that the better a practitioner is informed; the better it is for those, who find themselves in a highly disadvantaged state i.e., someone who has been diagnosed with a life threatening

In practice, however, its supporters receive uncritically a dissocialized meaning of science, assume that major clinical decisions are taken at the level of secondary specialist rather than primary generalist care, and ignore the multiple nature of most clinical errors, as well as the complexity of social problems within which clinical problems come and must be solved. According to the author these reductionist assumptions derive from the use of evidence based medicine as a tool for managed care in a transactional model for

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Evidenced-based practice (EBP) originated in Canada from a new form of medical school which was launched during the 1970s at an institution called McMaster University (Hoffmann, Bennett, & Del Mar, 2010). This new medical program was uncommon in a variety of its methods. The primary variation was the abbreviated three year medical program which is very brief in comparison to other medical school framework (Hoffmann, Bennett, & Del Mar, 2010). Instructors conceded that the ideal concept of teaching medical students everything they would possibly need to know in regards to practicing medicine with in this program was an unattainable undertaking (Hoffmann, Bennett, & Del Mar, 2010). In response to this epiphany, instructors at this institution transformed their educational approach and focused on instruction that would provide students with the skills and tools they would need to effectively locate health information while practicing as healthcare professionals (Hoffmann, Bennett, & Del Mar, 2010). This scientific approach to healthcare is now known as evidence-based practice (Hoffmann, Bennett, & Del Mar, 2010). In the past, healthcare practitioners made decisions for patients based on personal and professional experience, hearsay, and lack of scientific evidence (White, 2004). An evidence-based practice links the best available scientific evidence with clinical expertise (White, 2004). EBP proponents assert that while clinical

Over the past decades, there has been a shift in medicine from traditional reasoning towards evidence-based medicine (EBM).1 Practicing evidence-based medicine has been shown to improve quality of care.2 The providers are trained to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence and use their clinical judgment to predict whether a treatment will be beneficial for a particular patient. One can argue that evidence-based practice is very guideline-driven and does not take into account patient’s preferences. However, evidence-based medicine is not just about using data from clinical trials to design treatment plans for patients. It encourages a patient to be an active participant in a decision-making, which promotes improved patient satisfaction.

In order to understand Evidence Based Medicine, or EBM, a brief history of its origins will be beneficial. According to Claridge and Fabian (2005), one of the earliest examples of EBM is found in the biblical book of Daniel. Regardless of religious affiliation, this story or anecdote provides an excellent example of a controlled study, which is one of the foundations of EBM. In this story, Daniel and his three friends Azariah, Mishael, and Hananiah, refuse to eat the food provided to them by their king. Since starvation was not an option, they proposed to their steward (who was set over them) to test them for ten days by only giving them vegetables and water for their consumption. Then they, Daniel and his three friends, would be compared to the other young men who had consumed the food provided to them by the king. Daniel and his friends agreed that they would then submit to the direction and wisdom of the steward, after he was able to evaluate both groups. The end result of the experiment was that Daniel and his friends were noticeably healthier than their counterparts who had eaten of the king’s food (Claridge, Fabian, 2005, p. 548).

Evidence based practices are important to explore for various diseases so that their efficacy level can be determined and medical staff can be trained accordingly. Particularly speaking in the context of chronic diseases, evidence based practices are to be evaluated with the joint efforts of multiple healthcare institutions so that it can bring benefits to the overall healthcare industry.

The medical field has such a vast spectrum of aspects it is compiled of. Everything from surgery, to antiseptics, to experimentation, to hospitalization; each and every one is important to what we know as modern medicine today. One major concept of the field that changed medicine for the better is the introduction of evidence based medicine. According to Wikipedia, this is “an approach to medical practice intended to optimize decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from well designed and conducted research” (Wikipedia, 2015). This was something new to physicians in the 19th century because the prior reasoning of their methodology and procedure was due to things like curiosity

Evidence-based management (EBMgt or EBM) is an emerging movement to explicitly use the current, best evidence in management decision-making. Its roots are in evidence-based medicine, a quality movement to apply the scientific method to medical practice.

Rousseau repeatedly refers the development in clinical and evidence based medicines and links it with evidence based management . Whereas, in the same article she says that clinical practices differs from management practices and both are imposed by different stakeholders with different entry requirement. Learmonth and Harding (2006) also put forward in their article that “Evidence based health care” guided approach to Evidence based management is somewhat imprudent. Raine (1998) has also characterized evidence-based practices as the current ‘ zeitgeist in health care ’ , not in management practices. Rousseau supports ‘transfer of research findings’ on the basis of ‘unique paradox’ only . She says in her article that unlike policing and education management is mainly private sector activity while Learmonth and Harding by citing number of literatures say that “In parallel with this development, evidence-based approaches are increasingly being commended for policy and management