Evidence-based clinical practice: EBM, EBP, EBHC

EBM, acronym for Evidence-based Medicine, is the medicine based on evidence of efficacy.

The term “evidence” represents the proof of efficacy, that is the results of the studies supporting the efficacy of a certain drug or intervention published in scientific journals. All these studies together take the name of “literature“.

EBM is a model of thought developed in the last decade of the twentieth century with the intention of addressing some problems that used to afflict and still do the clinical-health sector, including for example:

• the difficulty to carry out professional development for doctors, due to the exponential proliferation of research studies, also caused by the advent of the Internet;
• the need to make a critical assessment of the quality of studies;
• the transfer of the results of the studies to the therapeutic protocols of the health facilities;
• the rising costs of healthcare…

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