EBM can be practiced in the following steps:

1. Formulating answerable clinical questions
2. Finding the evidence
3. Appraising the evidence
4. Applying the evidence
5. Evaluating performance 

Once the question is compiled, one must seek relevant evidence that will help answer this question. 

Source of information include:

• Textbooks and journals (although often disorganized or out of date)
• Colleagues of experts in the field
• Secondary sources of reliable...

Relevant articles should always be appraised for its validity, clinical usefulness, importance and applicability to the patient/patients of interest.

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...

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 w...

A problem cannot be solved without a solution - and a solution start with a question.

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 acron...

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. 

A very important step in this process is keeping in mind the patient's individual personal values and circumstances when making the decision...