Summary: This month’s edition features a discussion from a session at SHM’s HM13 meeting about evidence-based medicine and how hospitalists can incorporate EMB into their daily routine. Dr. Scott Kaatz, chief of hospital medicine and chief quality officer at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan shares his approach to making the best clinical evidence part of his daily practice. Dr. Dan Elliot, associate chair of research at Christina Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware discusses the “straight As,” of EMB, while Dr. Craig Umscheid, internist and epidemiologist at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia talks about how to define a clinical question and why synthesizing evidence via systematic review is important.
