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European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 2014 October;50(5):585-91

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Why evidence-based medicine is a good approach in physical and rehabilitation medicine - Thesis

Negrini S. ^{1, 2} ✉

¹ Clinical and Experimental Sciences Department, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; ² IRCCS Fondazione Don Gnocchi, Milan, Italy

According to a good definition, evidence-based medicine (EBM) is: “The explicit, conscientious, and judicious use of the current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients (and populations)”. More appropriate in a clinical context like that of physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) is looking at evidence based clinical practice (EBCP), whose definition is: “The integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values”. In the past the term evidence-based physical and rehabilitation medicine (EBPRM) was also proposed. In this thesis, after some historical notes on EBM and on PRM, we will discuss why in our view EBPRM must be the real foundation of our everyday PRM clinical practice.