Okay, so in this video, we're going to dive deeper into the concept of evidence-based care.

And by the end of this video, you'll be able to describe the definition and the history of evidence-based care.

You'll also be able to discuss why evidence by itself is not enough.

So let's start off by talking about the definition and the history.

So evidence-based care is really about solving clinical problems.

And it's considered a complete shift away from the traditional practice of medicine.

The traditional way of practicing medicine, there was a focus on intuition, a prior experience

driving your actions, and pathophysiologic rationale. In contrast to that way, evidence-based

medicine says that you should be aware of the evidence on which your practice is based,

understand the soundness of the evidence and its generalizability.

So the whole concept of evidence-based medicine says that intuition, unsystematic clinical

experiences, and pathophysiology are insufficient grounds for making clinical decision-making.

Now, it doesn't mean we get rid of that.

We're not throwing the baby out with the bath water, but with evidence-based practice, you're also supposed to incorporate research into

your practice. So I'm curious if anyone knows where evidence-based medicine was born.

Just take a guess. It actually came out of Canada, and these are two of the physicians, Dr. Sackett and Dr.

Yuya, I'll talk about in the next slide, who were part of the movement among Canadian

physicians to implement evidence-based medicine.

However, it does go back farther than that.

In the 1850s, Florence Nightingale, a nurse, made hospital sanitary reforms based on data.

She used research to prove that unsanitary conditions caused disease and death.

In the 1960s, epidemiologic pioneers in McGill University in Canada publicly recognized that

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