Sackett D L, Rosenberg W M
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford & The Oxford Institute for Health Sciences, England.
J R Soc Med. 1995 Nov;88(11):620-4. doi: 10.1177/014107689508801105.
As physicians, whether serving individual patients or populations, we always have sought to base our decisions and actions on the best possible evidence. The ascendancy of the randomized trial heralded a fundamental shift in the way that we establish the clinical bases for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics. The ability to track down, critically appraise (for its validity and usefulness), and incorporate this rapidly growing body of evidence into one's clinical practice has been named 'evidence-based medicine' (EBM).
作为医生，无论服务的是个体患者还是全体人群，我们一直都力图依据尽可能最佳的证据来做出决策并采取行动。随机试验的兴起预示着我们确立诊断、预后及治疗临床依据的方式发生了根本性转变。追寻、严谨评估（评估其有效性和实用性）并将这一迅速增长的证据体系纳入个人临床实践的能力已被称作“循证医学”（EBM）。
