Evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based medicine is one of the recently born explosively growing imp ortant issues, whose philosophical origins extend back to mid-19th century and remains a hot topic for clinicians, public health practioners, purchase rs, planners. and the public. Evidence-based health care has extended the a pplication of the prinicples of evidence-based medicine to all professions associated with health care, including purchasing and management. So it is important for the up and coming young doctors and clinicians, and even othe r health care professions, to gain knowledge of critical appraisal and expe rience in the practice of evidence-based health care. This article gives a brief description of what evidence-based medicine is and how to practice ev idence-based medicine and enlists some useful Internet sites that can provi de assistance in understanding the subject in even greater detail.