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UpToDate & Evidence Based Medicine

Library and open web resources to help health professionals make evidence based decisions for patient care

An Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine

Clinical decisions should be based on evidence

So you may come across two terms in health care literature:

  • EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) and
  • EBP (Evidence Based Practice)

If these terms are new to you, the tutorials below will help!

Use the grey tabs on this guide to find additional pages for information on 

  • the UpToDate database
  • Grey Literature
  • AI & Google tips to find Grey Literature
  • More Library databases with Grey Literature

This guide focuses on EBM or EBP resources that are not research articles. If you want to find evidence-based research articles

Go to the How do I know if it is a good research article? page of the Quick Search & Health Articles guide