Evidence-based medicine

patient-based medicine (Jozien Bensing 2000). Evidence based medicine refers to a doctor employing available scientific evidence to deliver the most adequate treatment for the patient. On the other hand, patient-based medicine includes patient needs, stories, and perspectives that a doctor includes in a medical decision making. The authors mention that these two paradigms belong to separate worlds and argue that communication can play an important role for bridging the gap between evidence and…

Humanity has come to evolve and prosper with the aid of medicine. Medieval Islamic Medicine, written by Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith, portrays the causes and effects medicine has on a civilization. The authors focused on two main questions when creating their work: how did Islamic medicine develop and evolve during medieval times and what impact did the development of medieval Islamic medicine have on societies? The authors formulated their arguments around the purpose of the…

Quality Improvement Issue In 2001, the Institute for Medicine (IOM) determined that the USA health care system is failing many Americans by frequently causing harm; essentially, creating a profound gap between peoples expectations and actual care provided (Richardson et al., 2001). People enter the health care field because they want to care for others, not to ever cause harm. However, health care is thought as a threat to society in the same way as cancer or car crash. IOM articulated many…

“out of the blue” syncope. He was noted to be newly bradycardic and was scheduled for a pacemaker placement. The astute internist I was working with obtained a thorough history and physical examination and made a case for Lyme carditis based on circumstantial evidence. A subsequent serology confirmed the same and the patient’s bradycardia resolved with appropriate antibiotics (which meant no pacemaker…A procedure avoided…expensive and limited medical resources to be put to good use somewhere…

of Evidence-based medicine (EBM) believe that it “improves patient care, improves quick knowledge update, helps to unify the quality of care provided, is a good educational tool and a convenient source of advice” (Farha et al., 2014). This benefits patients and no harm were done to them. There are several clinical trials that are conducted where the scientists and in turn the clinicians believe in the cause. Also, the EBM aided in the clinicians’ decision making to evaluate the results based on…

Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence- Based Practice, Quality Improvement, Safety and Informatics to guide the utilization of knowledge, skill and attitude. Evidence based practice in nursing care is a concept that has been applied to nursing practice for the past two decades. 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. The practice of evidence-based medicine means…

been resistance to the adoption of new systems and the integration of patient care. To complicate things, health administrators and health leaders are asking physicians not only to document patient health records online but to also follow evidence based medicine and clinical practice guidelines (CPG) as established in these systems. CPGs are “systematically developed statements to assist practitioner…

The Quality Chasm report was published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2001 urged for fundamental change in health care system through evidence practice to close the gap or chasm between pass health care and future health care to meet the needs of patients. This report provided directions and expectation for performance of healthcare providers, regulators, and policymakers. Important measures to advance evidence based practice, reinforce clinical information systems,monitor accountability…

The Effect of Manufacturing Processes on Tree-Based Medicine Trees can be used to make a wide variety of drugs and medicines – anything from Aspirin or chemotherapy products to ecstasy. What would happen if someone was to switch the processes to manufacture two types of medicine though? One prediction is if you took a yew tree and processed it in the same way that the mreah prew phnom tree is processed to make ecstasy, you will not get chemo medicine. The independent variable is the processing…

Evidence-Based practice (EBP) is the practice that is supported by current best evidence and professional expertise and merged them into current nursing practice to ensure patient receive best possible care (French, 1999). The value of the Evidence-Based practice is that enhances and builds on clinical expertise, knowledge of disease mechanisms and pathophysiology based on patients’ characteristics, situation and preferences in order to improve practice (Barker, 2013). On contrast, the drawback…