Evidence-Based Medicine Information

Evidence-Based Medicine is the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.

• Best research evidence refers to clinically relevant research, often from the basic health and medical sciences, but especially from patient-centered clinical research
• Clinical expertise means the ability to use clinical skills and past experience to rapidly identify each patient's unique health state and diagnosis, individual risks and benefits of potential interventions, and personal values and expectations
• Patient values refer to the unique preferences, concerns, and expectations that each patient brings to a clinical encounter and that must be integrated into clinical decisions if they are to serve the patient.

CME Courses on Evidence Based Practice

• Developing an Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline
• Evidence-based Orthopaedics: Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Evidence-Based Orthopaedics: An Introduction
• Evidence-Based Guidelines: What Do a Study's Results Mean?
• Evidence-based Medicine: Sources of Information and Their Utility
• Evidence-based Orthopaedics: Diagnostic Studies
• Evidence-based Orthopaedics: Prognostic Studies
• Evidence-Based Orthopaedics: Evaluation of Therapeutic Studies

Quality Evidence Based Medicine Tools

• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Appropriate Use Criteria

Library of Clinical Quality Improvement Products

• Clinical Performance Measures