...original definition described evidence-based practice as a process 322 which considers 'the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individuals' (Sackett et al. 1997). Writers in the field emphasize that it is a process involving a...

...several decades. An often-used definition of EBM states, "Evidence-based health care is the conscientious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients or the delivery of health services. Current best evidence is up-to-date information from relevant,...

...information systems and management of health records. Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM): The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care and medical treatment of individual patients. Best practices of EBM refers to integrating individual...

...profession is heading toward evidence-based medicine (Daly, 2005; Eddy, 2005), which is dependent on the explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about patient care; ie, the application of the scientific method to medical practice based on a foundation...

...Sackett (2) defines evidence-based medicine as "the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." There are inherent flaws if only an evidence-based strategy is considered for the decision-making process....

...ondertussen bekendstaat als 'evidence-based practice', door Sackett omschreven als 'the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence...(Sackett, Rosenberg, Gray, Haynes & Richardson, 1996, p. 72-73). De beweging voor een op wetenschap gebaseerde praktijkvoering valt niet meer terug te draaien....

...Altman, 2001). Having evolved from clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine is 'the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence...care of individual patients' (Sackett, Rosenberg, & Grey, 1996). EBM is premised on the idea 'that scientific medical knowledge exists in some way uncontaminated...

...international drive that began with evidence-based medicine (EBM). EBM is defined as 'the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence...decisions about the care of individual patients' (Sackett et al., 1996). In medicine the best available evidence is usually based on the outcomes of systematic...

...as the way forward. There is an evangelical fervour to convert all doctors to the advantages of this 'explicit and judicious use of current best evidence...decisions about the care of individual patients' (Sackett 1996). 34 But does this approach always achieve a cure? What of the role of the doctor as a therapeutic...

...EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE 11.1. INTRODUCTION Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been defined as 'the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence...decisions about the care of individual patients' (Sackett et al., 1996). In practice, 'current best evidence,' at least for treatment decisions, is generally...