it is a five-step approach to patient care that focuses on three main aspects:

Relevant and appropriate research must be conducted. Primary research or textbooks can be outdated or inaccurate. 

• The clinical problem needs to be turned into an answerable question
• Questions should be direct, clear, and answerable by research. 
• PICO points used:

Evaluate the research's quality and whether it applies to the question asked or not. 

Now is when everything other than the actual clinical research is taken into account.

EBM is an ongoing process and the approach chosen in a specific instance needs to be constantly evaluated and updated. This way, new and improved methods, and research can be developed along with the ever-changing medical world. 

• use relevant key-words
• choose a good bibliographic database
• conduct the search