Right to health and not to be harmed: a definition from Evidence-Based Medicine

Abstract

Direito à saúde e a não maleficência. Uma definição da Medicina Baseada em Evidências

Evaluation of a national evidence‐based health care course via teleconference in a developing country

“…Evidence‐based medicine is defined as the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the patient's perspective and the best available evidence from systematic research . Evidence‐based health care (EBH), which includes not only the care of individual patients but also other dimensions of health care, such as clinical guidelines, policy and health technology assessment, is a relatively new concept and many older practicing health professionals were not introduced to it during their graduation and post‐graduation courses, hence the importance of including this topic in continuing education courses targeted at these professionals.…”