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What is Evidence-Based Practice?

Is “the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients” 

Sackett, D. L., Rosenberg, W. M., Gray, J. A., Haynes, R. B., & Richardson, W. S. (1996). Evidence-based medicine: What it is and what it isn’t. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 312(7023), 71–72. doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71

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