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Many different terms and acronyms are used to describe Evidence-Based Clinical Practice. While evidence-based medicine (EBM) is frequently used as a generic term for all evidence-based practice, other terms and acronyms are often found in the literature and are outlined below.
This guide will use the EBM acronym.
- Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
- Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC)
- Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN)
- Evidence-Based Public Health (EBPH)
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Evidence-based medicine is a process that begins and ends with the patient; it 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 DL, Rosenberg WM, Gray JA, Haynes RB, Richardson WS. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ. 1996;312(7023):71-72.
The EBM process can be described as the 5 As.
