
Sackett, et al. defined Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) as “the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.”
-- Sackett DL, Straus SE, Richardson WS, Rosenberg W Haynes RB. "Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM". Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
“EBM is nothing more than a process of life-long, self-directed learning in which caring for patients creates the need for clinically important information about diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, and other clinical and health care issues.”
-- The EBM Working Group
EBM is… “an evolutionary progression of knowledge based on the basic and clinical sciences and facilitated by the age of information technology.”
-- Doherty, Steve. "Evidence-based medicine: Arguments for and Against." Emergency Medicine Australasia 2005; 17: 307-13.