Evidence-based medicine
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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an approach to medical practice intended to optimize decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from well-designed and well-conducted research. Although all medicine based on science has some degree of empirical support, EBM goes further, classifying evidence by its epistemologic strength and requiring that only the strongest types (coming from meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and randomized controlled trials) can yield strong recommendations; weaker types (such as from case-control studies) can yield only weak recommendations. The term was originally used to describe an approach to teaching the practice of medicine and improving decisions by individual physicians about individual patients.
See also
- Anecdotal evidence
- Clinical decision support system (CDSS)
- Clinical epidemiology
- Consensus (medical)
- Epidemiology
- Evidence-based dentistry
- Evidence-based design
- Evidence-based nursing
- Evidence-based policy
- Evidence-based practices
- Evidence-based research (Metascience)
- Medical algorithm
- Personalized medicine
- Policy-based evidence making
- Precision medicine
