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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.

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