<p class="ql-align-justify">The world of science and medicine are constantly evolving with new discoveries and research. As a health care professional, it is important that we stay up to date with these innovations to provide the best possible care for our patients. </p>

Principles of Evidence Based Medicine

<p>Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) comprises of the best research evidence, clinical expertise and patient values. In the middle of these three aspects, the sweat spot one might add, is EBM. EBM recognizes that times, as well as research literature, treatments and technologies, are changing and that we as doctors need to change with it. This task of staying up-to-date is made easy by EBM and the Five Step EBM Model. At the end of the day, it is us doctors working with the lives of others, so it is our duty to stay up to date. </p>

Evidence Based Medicine

<p>EBM can be practiced in the following steps:</p><ol><li>Formulating answerable clinical questions</li><li>Finding the evidence</li><li>Appraising the evidence</li><li>Applying the evidence</li><li>Evaluating performance </li></ol>

The Five Step EBM Model:

<p>A problem cannot be solved without a solution - and a solution start with a question.</p><p>It is often difficult to translate a clinical problem into a answerable question. However, it is good practice to be able to convert our information needs into answerable questions. Use the following acronym to construct an answerable clinical question: <strong>PICO</strong></p><ul><li><strong>P</strong>atient or <strong>P</strong>roblem: <em>4 month old baby with viral bronchiolitis </em></li><li><strong>I</strong>ntervention, test or exposure of interest: <em>corticosteroids</em></li><li><strong>C</strong>omparison interventions (if relevant): <em>no corticosteroids</em></li><li><strong>O</strong>utcomes of interest: <em>clinical score, length of hospital stay</em></li></ul>

1. Formulating answerable clinical questions

<p>Once the question is compiled, one must seek relevant evidence that will help answer this question. </p><p>Source of information include:</p><ul><li>Textbooks and journals (although often disorganized or out of date)</li><li>Colleagues of experts in the field</li><li>Secondary sources of reliable summarized evidence (<em>Archimedes, Clinical Evidence, BestBets</em>)</li><li>Online electronic bibliographic databases (Cochrane Library databases, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL) </li></ul><p>Remember to generate appropriate keywords for your searches and to use the Boolean operators "AND" and/or "OR" to combine or refine searches. </p>

2. Finding the evidence

<p>Relevant articles should always be appraised for its validity, clinical usefulness, importance and applicability to the patient/patients of interest.</p><p>This is often a skill and involves learning how to ask a few key questions regarding the validity of the evidence and it relevance. This will come with more experience as a doctor and by attending specific workshops. </p>

3. Appraising the evidence

<p>After appraising for the validity and importance of our evidence, we need to decide whether the evidence can be applied to our patient or population. </p><p>A very important step in this process is keeping in mind the patient's individual personal values and circumstances when making the decision< the risks and efficacy of the evidence should be discussed with the patient and family at length to allow them to make an informed decision. </p><p>The costs and availability of resources in your local hospital or practice should be kept in mind if the evidence is applied. </p><p><br></p>

4. Applying the evidence 

<p>Not only after, but during our incorporation of EBM into routine clinical practice we should constantly be evaluating our approach at frequent intervals. Areas of improvement at each step of the process should be noted as well</p>

5. Evaluating performance 

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Health care professionals are increasingly required to base clinical decisions on the best available evidence. Evidence based medicine (EBM) is a systematic approach to clinical problem solving which allows the integration of the best available research evidence with clinical expertise and patient v …

<p>Health care professionals are increasingly required to base clinical decisions on the best available evidence. Evidence based medicine (EBM) is a systematic approach to clinical problem solving which allows the integration of the best available research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. This paper explains the concept of EBM and introduces the five step EBM model: formulation of answerable clinical questions; searching for evidence; critical appraisal; applicability of evidence; evaluation of performance. Subsequent articles will focus on the principles and critical appraisal of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses, and provide a practical demonstration of the five step EBM model using a real life clinical scenario. </p>

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<ul><li><div><span>Andrade RA, do Sales Coriolano MDGW, de Souza ELH, da Silva JHC, da Cunha MD, Pernambuco L, Ribeiro VV, da Silva HJ. </span> </div><div><span>Dysphagia. 2022 Mar 1. doi: 10.1007/s00455-022-10429-1. Online ahead of print. </span> </div><div><span>PMID: <span>35230536 </span> </span><span>Review. </span> </div> </li><li><div><span>Goss C, Culley FJ, Parthasarathy P, MacLeod K, McGregor AH, Sam AH. </span> </div><div><span>Adv Med Educ Pract. 2022 Feb 8;13:123-127. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S342789. eCollection 2022. </span> </div><div><span>PMID: <span>35173511 </span> </span><span>Free PMC article. </span> </div> </li><li><div><span>Khurshid Z, Tariq R, Asiri FY, Abid K, Zafar MS. </span> </div><div><span>J Taibah Univ Med Sci. 2021 Jul 6;16(6):799-806. doi: 10.1016/j.jtumed.2021.05.012. eCollection 2021 Dec. </span> </div><div><span>PMID: <span>34899122 </span> </span><span>Free PMC article. </span><span>Review. </span> </div> </li><li><div><span>Falotico GG, Moraes VY, Matsunaga FT, Tamaoki MJS, Faloppa F, Belloti JC. </span> </div><div><span>BMJ Open. 2021 Nov 17;11(11):e051840. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051840. </span> </div><div><span>PMID: <span>34789493 </span> </span><span>Free PMC article. </span> </div> </li> </ul>

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