ABSTRACT
Evidence-based medicine (EBM), or the reliance on current scientific evidence to reach medical decisions, has been embraced as a new paradigm to standardize clinical care in many disciplines in medicine. A situation of uncertainty for clinical decision-making is unfamiliar to the experienced orthopaedic surgeon. Therefore, EBM has its limitations in surgery and is often neglected by orthopaedic surgeons. This chapter describes the elements of EBM required to understand the process of EBMoriginated decision-making.
