COMPONENTS OF PRACTICING EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE

The practice of evidence based medicine can be divided into the following components:

• Identifying a problem or area of uncertainty
• Formulating a relevant, focused, clinically important question that is likely to be answered
• Finding and appraising the evidence
• Assessing the clinical importance of the evidence
• Assessing the clinical applicability of any recommendations or conclusions
• Deciding whether or not to act on the evidence
• Assessing the outcomes of your actions
• Summarizing and storing records for future reference