[Necessity for using evidence-based medicine in making clinical decisions based on the example of erectile...

The choice of the method to treat erectile dysfunction is often not easy. The evidence-based approach to the critical appraisal of the medical literature could help us to find the best way. All the available information was critically assessed in order to find the answer to the question: Ds sildenafil effective in the treatment of erectile dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus? All sources of information have been analysed including medical text books and the sources from the university of Cochrane library. The result of the analysis was the following: sildenafil is effective with a B degree of significance in the treatment of erectile dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus. This allows us to recommend sildenafil for treatment of erectile dysfunction in men with diabetes mellitus. The above algorithm of the critical assessment of the primary medical literature can be used for preparing standards of urological diseases treatment.