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Approach to medical practice intended to optimize decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from well-designed and well-conducted research
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.... [It] means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. " The aim of EBM is to integrate the experience of the clinician, the values of the patient, and the be... Wikipedia
