...problems similar to those of defining disease management. Sackett defines EBM as "the contentious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients."1I?711 In this definition, best evidence is described as "clinically relevant research (especially...

...Technology (IT) solutions, population-related demands and budget constraints. EBM is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence...making decisions about the care of individual patients. Obviously, the practice of evidence based medicine depends on the synergy between the available clinical...

...diagnosis and treatment of patients. As Sackett et al. (1996, p. 71) state, it is ‘the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence...decisions about the care of individual patients'. The use of ‘medicine' might imply that it is only relevant to doctors and, therefore, some prefer...

...collected and analysed data, in order to decide how to act. Evidence-based medicine: 'the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence...making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of EBM means integrating individual clinical expertise with best available external clinical...

...deal of debate and conflict. Sackett et al. define "evidence-based medicine" as "the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence...making decisions about the care of individual patients" (1994). The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group illustrates the approach that this implies with a...

...Professor David Sackett and his colleagues (1996, p. 71), 'evidencebased medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence...decisions about the care of individual patients.' The method is described as having five steps: 1 A clear clinical question is formulated from the patient's...

...well-established principle of good professional practice. It has been defined as the conscientious, explicit, judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual clients. It is an integral part of professional development. The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine,...

...evidence-based medicine (EBM), evidencebased health care (EBHC) can be defined as the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about any aspect of health care. Using this definition, EBM can be considered to be a subset of EBHC. The...

...medicine is an important movement in medical practice and pedagogy, in that it urges the "conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence...decisions about the care of individual patients" (Sackett et al. 1996, p. 71). Carefully controlled clinical trials in medicine began only in 1948 and were rare...

...latest medical research has to offer, and they define evidence-based medicine as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence...decisions about the care of individual patients." 2 " It seems an obvious enough principle, yet to put it into practice they have had to construct a...