The principles of evidence-based medicine

2021 ◽  
pp. 1268-1278
Author(s):  
Miriam J. Johnson ◽  
David C. Currow
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Personalized Care ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Medical Disciplines ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has transformed clinicians’ approach to the practice of medicine. In most disciplines, EBM is the fundamental component of decision-making driving expectations of the care received by patients and families. To improve outcomes, EBM blends science and compassion to provide personalized, effective treatments, and consistent application of interventions. The ever-increasing demand for palliative care will continue unabated due to longer lifespans and a shift in the approach to disease from primarily acute illnesses to predominantly chronic conditions. The adoption of EBM by palliative care providers will advance the knowledge and practice base, elevating its position among other medical disciplines that have adopted EBM as the dominant paradigm. The framework of EBM informs a systematic and manageable approach to the overwhelming amount of available evidence. Patients will benefit from EBM practices when palliative care practitioners provide the most effective and personalized care tailored each patient’s needs, characteristics, and preferences.

The principles of evidence-based medicine

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy P. Abernethy
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Personalized Care ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Medical Disciplines ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has transformed clinicians’ approach to the practice of medicine. In most disciplines, EBM is the fundamental component of decision-making driving expectations of the care received by patients and families. To improve outcomes, EBM blends science and compassion to provide personalized, effective treatments, and consistent application of interventions. The ever-increasing demand for palliative care will continue unabated due to longer lifespans and a shift in the approach to disease from primarily acute illnesses to predominantly chronic conditions. The adoption of EBM by palliative care providers will advance the knowledge and practice base, elevating its position amongst other medical disciplines that have adopted EBM as the dominant paradigm. The framework of EBM informs a systematic and manageable approach to the overwhelming amount of available evidence. Patients will benefit from EBM practices when palliative care practitioners provide the most effective and personalized care tailored each patient’s needs, characteristics, and preferences.

scholarly journals The ACP Evidence-Based Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungmi Lian
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is no longer new terminology in the healthcare system but,evidence-based CAMis still an unfamiliar term. Evidence-based medicine, a practice of medicine based on the recommendation derived from a systematic, scientific study of published data, is accepted as the standard in the healthcare.ACP Evidence-Based Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicineby Bradly Jacobs and Katherine Gundling is reviewed. Up-to-date reference books like theACP Evidence-Based Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicineis an essential tool for improving quality of care when the providers aim to practice evidence-based medicine.

Methodists

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marquis Berrey
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Causal Inference ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
General Similarity ◽  
Based Medicine

Methodists were a self-identified medical sect of the 1st century bce, Imperial period, and late antiquity who shared a common method of observation and causal inference about the practice of medicine. Methodists took their name from the “method” (Gk. methodos), an observable path or evidence-based medicine which the physician undertook to gain secure therapeutic knowledge. The path was supposed to reveal the general similarity between patients’ ostensibly differing conditions. Three similarities, or “commonalities,” as they were called, were possible: fluid, constricted, or a mixture of the two. Opponents pilloried Methodists for the loose logic of their methodological revolution and socially disruptive claims to teach medicine within six months. Primarily a Roman phenomenon, the popularity of Methodism seems to have been due to a ready supply of practitioners and its focus on certain, fast therapy. Methodists wrote chiefly on internal medicine, surgery, and medical history.

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