Evidence based medicine: medical practice in the third millennium

ABSTRACT

Evidence-based medicine [EBM] is a growing international movement in health care that aims to bring the best evidence from medical research to the bedside, clinic and community. Evidence-based medicine de-emphasizes intuition, unsystematic clinical experience and pathophysiologic rationale as sufficient grounds for clinical decisionmaking and stresses the examination of evidence from clinical research. The aim of this paper is to familiarize the readers with the basic concept, methodology, resources of evidence-based medicine and its applicability in Pakistan