Letter in response to 'our sufficiency-of-proof thresholds'

摘要

In your recent editorial, Our sufficiency-of-proof thresholds, it is reported that a technology commercialization officer (TCO) claims "since healthcare decisions aren't necessarily based on evidence, we wanted to ask a clinician to see how this therapy device is actually used 'in the clinic.'"At first glance, this may indeed appear to be a negative statement, one that implies clinicians are not practicing based upon evidence. The reality, however, is that not all practice decisions can be made solely upon published research data. True evidence-based practice (EBP), as defined by some of the originators of the concept, is defined as "the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.