Evidence-based medicine and vascular interventions

Evidence based medicine (EBM) was first introduced by Gordon Guyatt at McMaster University in Canada in 1992. EBM is the integration of best research-evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. This leads to a diagnostic and therapeutic alliance, which optimises clinical outcome and quality of live. So, EBM is more than just scoring the quality of the available evidence. How does it work in daily practice? Step 1: identifying the need for information and convert this into a question, step 2: looking for the best evidence to answer this question, step 3:critical appraisal of the available evidence, step…