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Evidence-based practice began
its life in healthcare as evidence-based medicine. Evidence-based medicine is based on the
concept of shifting healthcare away from basing decisions on opinion and past practices.
Research has shown that physicians failed to recommend medications up to ten years after
they have been shown to be efficacious and continue to recommend treatments up to ten
years after they have been shown to be useless. Antman EM, Lau J, Kupelnick B, Mosteller
F, Chalmers TC: A comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomised control trials and
recommendations of clinical experts. JAMA 1992;268:240-8. |