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What is Evidence-based Medicine?
"A NEW paradigm for medical practice is emerging. Evidence-based medicine de-emphasizes intuition, unsystematic clinical experience and pathophysiologic rationale as sufficient grounds for clinical decision making and stresses the examination of evidence from clinical research. Evidence based medicine requires new skills of the physician, including efficient literature searching and the application of formal rules of evidence evaluating the clinical literature."
Evidence-based Medicine Working Group
JAMA1992 Nov 4;268(17):2420-5