Evidence-based medicine is a methodology for evaluating the validity of research in clinical medicine and applying the results to the care of individual patients.
Evidence is gathered through systematic review of the literature, and is critically appraised.
Provide librarians with the skills to work in partnership with clinicians in accessing and managing clinical medical information. Develop and support the evidence-based medicine needs of a growing constituency of medical faculty, clinicians and librarians through newsletters, listserves, and the World Wide Web. This site is largely open to all who would like to use it. EBM's ultimate application is at the level of the individual clinician's decisions about managing patients. It is an explicit approach to problem solving and continual professional learning which requires the use of current best evidence in making medical decisions about individual patients.