Evidence-Based Practice and Policy Workshop 2023

Evidence-Based Practice and Policy (EBPP) posits that health care providers should use the best available evidence, ideally from current, high-quality systematic reviews, together with clinical or real-world experience, to help patients and members of the public prevent, resolve, or cope with problems related to their health, according to their values and preferences. Clinically, the practice of EBPP involves the following steps:

• Defining clinical questions in a way that allows clear answers (Ask)

• Efficient searching for the best information to answer the question (Acquire)

• Appraising the evidence to determine its strength (Appraise)

• Extracting the clinical message from the information (Apply)

• Applying that information to ones’ patients, including weighing risks, benefits, costs and inconveniences in the context of patient values and preferences (Act)