Disciplines and Occupations

Evidence-Based Practice

A way of providing health care that is guided by a thoughtful integration of the best available scientific knowledge with clinical expertise. This approach allows the practitioner to critically assess research data, clinical guidelines, and other information resources in order to correctly identify the clinical problem, apply the most high-quality intervention, and re-evaluate the outcome for future improvement.

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Abstract

A way of providing health care that is guided by a thoughtful integration of the best available scientific knowledge with clinical expertise. This approach allows the practitioner to critically assess research data, clinical guidelines, and other information resources in order to correctly identify the clinical problem, apply the most high-quality intervention, and re-evaluate the outcome for future improvement.

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Synonyms

15 entry terms
  • Evidence Based Practice
  • Evidence Based Health Care Management
  • Evidence Based Healthcare Management
  • Evidence Based Management, Health Care
  • Evidence Based Management, Healthcare
  • Evidence-Based Health Care
  • Evidence-Based Healthcare
  • Evidence Based Health Care
  • Evidence Based Healthcare
  • Evidence-Based Health Cares
  • Evidence-Based Healthcares
  • Health Care, Evidence-Based
  • Health Cares, Evidence-Based
  • Healthcare, Evidence-Based
  • Healthcares, Evidence-Based

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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general or unspecified; prefer specifics

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History Note

2009

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  1. H02w.249w

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WB 102.5

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Evidence-Based Practice. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D055317. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D055317
  2. Evidence-Based Practice. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_practice
  3. Evidence-Based Practice. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2354820