Evidence Based Healthcare in Africa

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Evidence based healthcare (EBHC) is a systematic review of processes & analysis of the best evidence of drugs that is used to make decisions for individual patients

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Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is to understand the process of decision making that is extracted from scientific evidence.

EBM is used to help draw conclusions from clinical trials that were previously performed under clinical vigilance, that are used to develop and maintain new medical protocols for diagnosis or treatment of a disease, and later on these new protocols are considered to be the evidence base for future clinical trials. Evidence is collected based on studies and protocols that are conducted and developed to achieve the best outcome for the patients. This is also called Evidence-based Practice. Continue reading