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Continuing Medical Education

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) involves the ‘conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients’. 1 Clinical epidemiology, which is concerned with the application of epidemiological principles to the delivery of health care, provides the scientific basis for EBM. The scope of clinical epidemiology is broad, ranging from the study of the patterns and predictors of health outcomes in defined populations to the assessment of diagnostic and management options in the care of individual patients. Moreover, the discipline encompasses such diverse topics as the evaluation of treatment effectiveness, causality, assessment of screening and diagnostic tests and clinical decision analysis. 2,3