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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence to solve clinical problems.1 It requires integration of individual clinical expertise and patient preferences with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research and consideration of available resources.2 EBM provides the pediatrician with an explicit process to locate, appraise, and apply clinical research reports to patient care. The 4-part process of EBM (ask, acquire, appraise, apply) provides an organized framework to facilitate bringing evidence to the point of patient care.
The proliferation of medical literature is rapid. A large number of new randomized...