Evidence-Based Health Care In The 21st Century

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Over the last decade, there has been a noteworthy change in the way that healthcare professionals use evidence from scientific research in their clinical practice. There has been plenty of evidence that a gap existed between research and practice. The concept of evidence-based health care has become part of the language of clinicians, managers, policy makers, and researchers in health services throughout the world. Though the notion of evidence-based health care is far from the new and the extent of its uptake in clinical practice is uneven, the diffusion and adoption of the ideas associated with evidence-based health care during the 1990s provide a remarkable testament to their power and their relevance to the current problems and challenges