Evidence-Based Practice

Evidence-based practice consists of five steps:

1. Ask a searchable clinical question
2. Find the best evidence to answer the question
3. Appraise the evidence
4. Apply the evidence with clinical expertise, taking the patient's wants/needs into consideration
5. Evaluate the effectiveness / efficiency of the process.

Source: Strauss, S. E. Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM.  New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2005.

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