Abstract
Objectives: Evidence-based medicine, particularly randomized controlled trials, influence many of the daily decisions within plastic surgery as well as nearly every other medical specialty, and will continue to play a larger role in medicine in the future. Even though it is certainly not a new idea, evidence-based medicine continues to remain a hot topic among members of the healthcare community. As evidence-based medicine continues to grow and evolve, it is becoming more important for all physicians to understand the fundamentals of evidence-based medicine: how evidence-based medicine has changed, and how to successfully incorporate it into the daily practice of medicine. Results: Admittedly, the wide acceptance and implementation of evidence-based medicine has been slower in surgical fields such as plastic surgery given the difficulty in performing large scale blinded randomized controlled trials due to the inherent nature of a surgical intervention as a treatment modality. Despite these challenges, the plastic surgery literature has recently begun to respond to the demand for more evidence-based medicine. Conclusions: Today's plastic surgeons are making a concerted embrace evidence-based medicine by increasing the amount of out of high-level clinical evidence and should be encouraged to continue to further their endeavors in the field of evidence-based medicine in the future.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 68-71 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cochrane database
- Evidence-based medicine
- Levels of evidence
- Plastic surgery
- Randomized controlled trial
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Policy