D. Misra, V. Agarwal
Jan 24, 2018
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Quality indicators
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Journal of Korean Medical Science
Abstract
Scientific research in health sciences aims to enhance knowledge about diseases and attempt to find better and newer diagnostic and therapeutic tools. With economic growth worldwide, the number of published scientific papers is exponentially increasing.1 For the practicing clinician, it is important to be able to analyze and comprehend healthcare evidence in the shortest possible time. With the growth of scientific literature, the concept of EBM has garnered increasing attention in the past three decades. Defined as an attempt to most appropriately utilize the currently available and best evidence toward making individual patient care decisions,2 EBM has witnessed growth in parallel with the voluminous amounts of scientific literature being published today. Broadly speaking, four major steps are involved in EBM. It starts with the identification of a clinical problem, followed by an appropriate literature search to solve it. Synthesis of thereby-derived search results culminate in the utilization of these search results to identify the most appropriate solution to the aforementioned clinical problem.3