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Evidence Matters\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>
\r\nBMJ has been championing EBM since David Sackett in his famous 1996 editorial (<\/span>Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn’t) <\/span><\/a>set out the tenets of the movement – as an approach that \u201cintegrates the best external evidence with individual clinical expertise and patient’s choice.”<\/span>
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\r\nBeing evidence-based is embedded into BMJ’s company culture and is one of our five company values. <\/span>BMJ is a founding member of the UK<\/span> GRADE <\/span><\/a>Network, and the international conference on evidence based healthcare,<\/span> Evidence Live<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>Today, the BMJ Knowledge Centre\u2019s team of in-house information specialists search the literature for high quality new and updated international guidelines and systematic reviews<\/span>, as well as <\/span>tailoring bespoke searches to support BMJ Best Practice topic updates.\u00a0<\/span>
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\r\nOver recent years, the BMJ Knowledge Centre team has conducted extensive research with healthcare professionals worldwide to understand how you use evidence to support your work. You told us you wanted a single source of evidence-based answers to<\/span> important real-world clinical questions<\/b> to enable <\/span>evidence-informed decisions<\/b> in your clinical work.\u00a0 You need current, and trustworthy<\/span>\u00a0evidence delivered <\/span>quickly and succinctly<\/b> at the <\/span>point-of-care<\/b>.\u00a0 You want a simple presentation, transparency around <\/span>evidence quality, <\/b>and<\/span> to be able to <\/span>delve deeper<\/b> to see further detail. This is precisely what we deliver.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
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Components of EBM<\/b><\/h2>
\r\nBMJ Best Practice processes support all three components of EBM: best available evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values and preferences.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
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\r\nBest available evidence<\/b>
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