title: [Evidence based medicine].
abstract: Evidence based medicine is a systematic method employed to secure the best scientific available evidence when making clinical decisions. Several steps are taken in these process, describing a clinical scenario, formulating a specific clinical question, searching the literature for the pertinent studies, selecting the relevant articles using rules of evidence, understanding and calculating measures of effect, and finally incorporating the evidence and patients preferences in the clinical decision process.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Pediatría y Neonatología, Hospital Privado de Córdoba. ecuestas@hospitalprivadosa.com.ar
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cuestas
mesh_terms: D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design