PHILADELPHIA, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Report identifies potential impact of evidence-based medicine in meeting today's healthcare challenges

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the availability of the first in a series of issue briefs on evidence-based medicine (EBM). The issue brief - "Building a Business Case for Evidence-Based Medicine" - reveals the urgent need for EBM, as identified in a roundtable discussion of healthcare industry thought leaders at the CMIO Leadership Forum: Transforming Healthcare Through Evidence-based Medicine, last fall in Chicago.

The roundtable discussion, which featured five physicians representing hospital and healthcare technology CMIOs, research directors and clinical professors, was convened by the developers of ClinicalKey, Elsevier's clinical insight engine designed to help physicians quickly locate accurate answers to their clinical questions. The issue brief, based on the roundtable, emphasizes the need for a business case for EBM as a central necessity to enhancing the American healthcare system. According to findings highlighted within the brief, making the business case for EBM will not be attributed to a single event or destination, but will become more of a process or journey.

"By relying on fast, comprehensive, point-of-care clinical reference tools, clinicians will be better able to pursue the 'shared practice' approach so vital to the patient-centered medical home and accountable care," said David Goldmann, M.D., Vice President and Chief Medical Quality Assurance Officer at Elsevier. "EBM solutions have the potential to accelerate and improve clinical decision making and patient outcomes."

EBM is a long-term, problem-based learning process that involves:

Identified within this brief are opportunities and strategies that will assist the healthcare system through the EMB journey such as:

Although EBM continues to evolve, it has already proven its capacity to influence top-line healthcare issues. An analysis of EBM's potential impact on healthcare's most pressing challenges, including clinician shortages, waste, accountable care and patient engagement is also identified as an imperative need within the healthcare system and further elaborated on in the issue brief.

The issue brief is available for download at http://ckey.co/ckebmbiz. Subsequent briefs will focus on EBM implementation and the future of EBM.

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Importance of Evidence-Based Medicine Presented in New Issue Brief Available from Elsevier