EBM emerged in the 1990s as a strategy to improve patient care. EBM practice involves the use of the best available research evidence with patient values and clinical judgment for clinical decision making. EBM focuses on diagnosis, treatment, etiology, prognosis, risk and harm.
- 1991 - At McMaster Universitiy, Canada, Gordon Guyatt convenes the EBM Working Group.
- 1991 - Users Guides to the Medical Literature are first published in JAMA and become seminal works for EBM practice.
- 1992 - EBM Working Group publshes "Evidence-Based Medicine: a new approach to teaching the practice of medicine." JAMA. 1992 Nov 4;268(17):2420-5.PMID:1404801
- 1996 - David Sacket et al publish "Evidence-Based Medicine: what it is and what it isn't". Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2007 Feb;455:3-5. PMID:17340682