[How to practically solve diagnostic or therapeutic problems in an EMB process?]

Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) can be defined as the use of best current evidence from clinical research in making decisions about the care of individual patients. It consists of a process of turning clinical problems into questions and then locating the best available evidence to answer them, critically appraising the evidence for its validity and usefulness, and applying the findings to clinical practice. The present article presents the EBM principles and their application to diagnostic and therapeutic questions. Further detailed information on Evidence-Based Medicine is presented at the URL address: http:¿www.ebm.lib.ulg.ac.be/prostate/ebm.+ ++htm.