Abstract
We live in an era of information, innovation and change. There are a wide range of
differences between what is known and what is practiced. Variation occurs due to gap
between the time that basic and clinical research knowledge takes for transforming
into reality of practice. As a result, there is delay between adopting new and useful
information and discarding ineffective and harmful ones. The way to fill this gap
is performing evaluations of findings available and by making them accessible to the
clinician. It is of paramount importance that clinical decision regarding patient
health care should incorporate the best available scientific evidence. Clinical decision
making based on good quality evidence will lead to more effective and efficient treatments.
Evidence alone is never sufficient to make a clinical decision. For effective care,
the practitioner needs a more efficient and effective way to search for information
as wells as skills to rapidly evaluate and sort out what is useful and relevant.
Keywords
Evidence - problem-based learning - research
