Each new and concurrent finding further corroborates the existence of pain or a MFTP. A combined medical biosensor probe would be faster and more efficient for end users than trying to take individual measures. Biosensors can be used to augment palpation findings for further confirmation of subjective soft tissue pain complaints. Used together with existing Gold Pain Standard measurement would further objectify subjective pain. This provides Evidence Based effectiveness outcomes tools for Patients, Practitioners, Researchers, and Insures.
Wikipedia describes evidence-based medicine (EBM) or evidence-based practice (EBP) as the application of the best available evidence gained from the scientific method to clinical decision making. EBM/EBP seeks to assess the strength of evidence of the risks and benefits of treatments (including lack of treatment) and diagnostic tests. Evidence quality can range from meta-analyses and systematic reviews of double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials at the top end, down to conventional wisdom at the bottom.
Evidence Based Practices is today’s protocol in clinical practice. According to J.A. Muir Gray, evidence based medicine or evidence based clinical practice is the judicious application of best current knowledge to the condition and values of the individual patient. Evidence based clinical practice is an approach to decision making in which the clinician uses the best evidence available, in consultation with the patient, to decide upon the option which suits that patient best. (Evidence based policy making
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Evidence based medicine is described as the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. Clinically relevant research, often from the basic sciences of medicine, (including the clinical examination), the power of prognostic markers, and the efficacy and safety of therapeutic, rehabilitative, and preventive regimens. External clinical evidence both invalidates previously accepted diagnostic tests and treatments and replaces them with new ones that are more powerful, more accurate, more efficacious, and safer. (Evidence-based practice. K A McKibbon 1995)
Practitioner need to identify their performance to compete in today’s EBM and EBP world. Until now, we have had no bio-physiological tools to measure treatment outcomes effectiveness. We need tools to aid us in evaluation of treatments effectiveness for EBP recommended in collection, interpretation, and integration of valid, important, and applicable patient-reported, clinician-observed, and research-derived evidence. (Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn’t Sackett, Rosenberg, Gray, Haynes, & Richardson, 1996)
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is spreading in popularity in many health care disciplines. One of its main features is the reliance on the partnership among hard scientific evidence, clinical expertise, and individual patient needs and choices. Librarians play an important role in the spread of EBP because of the importance of identifying and retrieving appropriate literature from various sources for use in making health care decisions. This article gives an overview of how to search for therapy, diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis both for original studies and secondary publications such as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and clinical practice guidelines. Understanding how this research is done, how it is indexed, and how to retrieve the clinical evidence are an important set of skills that librarians can provide for clinicians interested in EBP (Evidence-based practice. K A McKibbon 1998)
This paper on evidence based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. By individual clinical expertise we mean the proficiency and judgement that individual clinicians acquire through clinical experience and clinical practice. Increased expertise is reflected in many ways, but especially in more effective and efficient diagnosis and in the more thoughtful identification and compassionate use of individual patients’ predicaments, rights, and preferences in making clinical decisions about their care. By best available external clinical evidence we mean clinically relevant research, often from the basic sciences of medicine, but especially from patient centred clinical research into the accuracy and precision of diagnostic tests (including the clinical examination), the power of prognostic markers, and the efficacy and safety of therapeutic, rehabilitative, and preventive regimens. External clinical evidence both invalidates previously accepted diagnostic tests and treatments and replaces them with new ones that are more powerful, more accurate, more efficacious, and safer. (Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn’t Sackett, Rosenberg, Gray, Haynes, & Richardson, 1996)
Measurement is key to scientific studies. In order to know which treatment works best the medical community needs need a yardstick to measure. If inflammation could be measured then treatment outcomes could be validated according to Evidence Based Practices.