Which values should guide evidence-based practice?

Which values should guide evidence-based practice?
AMA Journal of Ethics; by Amber R. Comer; 1/25
Prior to the emergence and availability of evidence-based reviews, physicians and patients made decisions based on anecdotal data, opinion, experience, judgment, conjecture, and conventional wisdom. In 1982, the first textbook describing the methodology of translating biomedical science into clinical practice, Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials, set the stage for what would eventually become what we now call evidence-based medicine (EBM). EBM incorporates the best available scientific evidence when making decisions about an individual patient’s care. In the years since the adoption of EBM, it has become not only the clinical standard of care, but also an ethical expectation.