Evidence-based practice: Let's be reasonable

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is rapidly reshaping notions about what is appropriate medical care. It is setting the criteria by which health-care policies are developed, and it is affecting health-care provider self-confidence as well as the confidence of the public. EBM has expanded beyond medicine to address rehabilitation, under the more general rubric of evidence-based practice (EBP). The notion of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) as …