evidence based health care, PICO, search, evaluation, implementation

Evidence-Based Healthcare approach is very important in decision making proces. Every decision of healthcare professional should be based on the best available evidence, professional expertise and also patient preferences. One aspect without other two does not enable a comprehensive care about patient (or client). However, how to stay ?up to date? if in just one database Medline is currently published more than 22 million papers. It is not possible for an individual to go through all the new papers. ?Evidence-Based Healthcare approach includes 5 step model of Evidence-Based Practice helping the healthcare professionals to: 1. Formulate the answerable clinical question; 2. Search the best available evidence; 3. Critically appraise the evidence; 4. Implement the best available evidence; 5. Evaluate your performance.