Evidence Based Practice: An Introduction: Home

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is the conscientious, explicit, judicious and reasonable use of modern, best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.is the framework for your clinical decision-making process.

It is the integration of:

• your knowledge, skills, and past experience (Clinical Expertise);
• the unique preferences, concerns and expectations of your patient (Patient Characteristics); and
• valid and clinically relevant research (Best Evidence).

David Sackett defined evidence-based medicine as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." 

Read his article from BMJ entitled Evidence-Based Medicine:  what it is and what it isn't to learn more.

Definition from the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine