What Is Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)?

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

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and Innovation are similar in several key characteristics. The primary goal of both EBP and innovation is the desire to improve patient outcomes and the patient experience. Outcomes can be assessed using both quantitative and qualitative measures. Another shared goal of EBP and innovation is to improve organizational outcomes such as financial strength. EBP and innovation are both based on a spirit of inquire and require a degree of clinical expertise to be effective (Hoffman, Bennett & Mar, 2013).

Over the past two decades, EBP has expanded on Florence's theories. EBP constitutes the combination of clinical expertise, patient values, and research evidence when making decisions about patient care. In the 1990's, it was determined that just increasing knowledge was not sufficient for improving patient outcomes. To obtain better patient outcomes "new knowledge must be transformed into clinically useful forms, effectively implemented across the entire care team within a systems context,

Nurses mostly preferred to use experience based skills in their practice despite Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs). Inadequate time and reviewing research studies were recorded the greatest barriers (Dalheim, A. et al., 2012). Despite awareness regarding the importance and benefits of EBP, they still like better to ask their colleagues rather than the use of the internet to search new findings from nursing research articles. The majority of nurses followed the practices which they had learned in their education and experience (Ammouri, A, A ., 2014).

Since we teach students from diverse backgrounds, I hope to gain insight on the understanding of the general population regarding the various topics in medicine, which will enable me to not only to educate these students regarding any false information or gaps in information they may have, but also learn of the common misconceptions in our community, so that I may be able to effectively educate my patients and their families in the future. All in all, I look forward to investing my time and talents in the mini-med program that aims to provide medical education to the next generation of citizens in our

According to Dr. David Sackett, 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 is a clinical decision-making process in which clinicians use theory-derived, research-based knowledge to inform their decisions about care delivery. Most importantly, consideration of individual needs, preference and resources must be included.

Experience with EBP: Evidence-based practice plays a crucial role in the quality of patient care. When care is performed based upon evidence opposed to outdated textbooks, instinct, tradition, or colleagues influence (Beyea & Slattery, 2006). The average nurse is currently more than forty years of age, without the frequent education upon new topics, many nurses’ knowledge has become outdated. As new textbooks are not published yearly or often times not kept up to date within facilities, they do not serve as reliable sources of

Research and best-practices are an integral part of evidence-based management(EBM) and allow an organization to successfully implement EBM into their facilities. HSHS-EWD is a group of four hospitals that work with several clinics and healthcare providers to promote the health and well-being of many local communities. Connie Dorn, manager of central scheduling and prior authorization, is located within the revenue department and oversees registration and scheduling of the four different hospitals. During her 10-year tenure with the hospital systems she has seen many changes occur that have been beneficial to the hospitals, patients, and staff. Management meets on a continuous business to discuss areas that need improvement in order to stay on top of the latest advancements in the medical community. Connie currently sits on many boards, teams, and groups within the hospital system and is very experienced in the utilization of research and best-practices in regards to EBM. She recently utilized these skills while seating on a team that was trying to find a solution to denial of claims and poor customer satisfaction due to lack of authorization being in place. During the research phase it was discovered that the authorization team was obtaining authorization, however, physician offices were ordering the test incorrectly causing the radiologist to update the orders. Her team eventually found a solution that is in the process of being rolled out system wide called ACR-Select.

Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is a process that permits us to evaluate study, scientific strategies, and other evidence resources centered on high quality outcomes and put on the results to run-through [Academic of Medical-Surgical nurse (AMSN, 2014)].

Most of the researches for EBM are being conducted in a selected population in which the result does not accurately reflecting each individual patient.5 Sometimes, the populations that are being studied are different in terms of cultural, environmental and geographical background to the real patient. This can greatly affect the patient outcome for certain types of treatment. The research and studies are mainly on common diseases and illness in which the so called orphan disease are lack.5 Thus many factors should be considered when using EBM in practice in order to provide a good quality medicine to patient.

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.” (Sackett D, 1996)

One of the major downfalls of EBM according to Upshur are the time constraints that depersonalize the doctor patient interactions by forcing the doctor ask a barrage of questions which are necessary to follow protocol; this takes away from the potential of the clinician to practice active listening since there is a limit on the time allotted per patient interaction. Another limitation is that the clinical trials on which EBM are based on have specific patent characteristics, most of which do not have multiple illnesses in order to eliminate confounding variables. These patients are very different than the real world patients that have multiple illnesses and are taking various medications. In addition, there are very few clinical trials that include the elderly population since the trials usually want otherwise healthy people with a single diagnosis. Another problem relating to the randomized control trials is that they still do not tell you exactly what will work for your patient but rather what may work, this is seen as having little difference between how the practitioner can diagnose a patent. In all this article argues that the limited access to technologies and the standardized patient presentations used for the clinical trials actually impedes the ability of the EBM to be effective for all

In health care, patients’ lives are in the hands of the health care practitioners, health care organizations, insurance companies, and to some degree, even health care technology. The growth and future implications of evidence-based medicine (EBM) through improvement of technology in health care are important today, because health care practitioners and organizations want to ultimately decrease cost, improve quality of care, and increase access to health care (Glandon, Smaltz, & Slovensky, 2014, p. 28). One way to achieve these goals is through the implementation and improvement of EBM and interoperability which will enhance the efficiency of work production resulting in these positive outcomes. According to Glandon, Smaltz, and Slovensky (2014), EBM is an “information management and learning strategy that seeks to integrate clinical expertise with the best evidence available to make effective clinical decisions that will ultimately improve patient care,” (p. 6). “Interoperability is the ability of different information and communications technology systems and software applications to communicate, to exchange data accurately, effectively, and consistently, and to use information that has been exchanged,” (Iroju, Soriyan, Gambo, & Olaleke, 2013, para. 1). Without interoperability and EBM, fundamental data and information such as patient records cannot be easily shared across and within enterprises having a direct impact on the quality of care. It

In considering the implementation of EBP’s, it would be easy to presume that initiating best practice would meet limited resistance, as these measures have been proven to have the most favorable outcomes when treating patients. However, this is not the case as health professionals from multiple disciplines cite many barriers that prevent carrying out these best practices. As listed in Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt; some of these are knowledge and skills deficit, attitudes

The health care professionals should be more exposed to EBM resources by educational courses and refreshing workshops which support EBM with effective methods for teaching and evaluation of its components.