Making decisions about patient care is difficult. Timely access to the current relevant literature is crucial to the practice of evidence-based decision making. Health care providers who are inundated with new scientific findings need better, more efficient ways to stay on top of the latest advances in clinical science so they can provide the most effective and appropriate care.

EBDM recognizes that clinicians can never be completely current with all conditions, medications, materials or available products, and provides a mechanism for assimilating current research findings into everyday practice in order to provide the best possible care. Thus, scientific evidence is considered by the practitioner in the context of an individual patient's circumstances when it is appropriate.

  What is Evidence-Based Decision-Making?

Evidence-Based Decision Making (EBDM) is the formalized process and structure for efficient online searching to effectively find relevant evidence, and critical appraisal of the evidence to rapidly evaluate and sort out what is valid and useful.so that the best scientific evidence is considered when making patient care decisions.