Evidence-based Medicine: Challenges and Consensus for Clinicians & Epidemiologists

Abstract

Clinical epidemiology focuses on issues relevant to clinical medicine, representing a distinctive
field that converts clinical practice into a quantitative science. Public health epidemiology is
the basis of knowledge about how to prevent and treat disease in populations. Clinicians are
concerned with diagnosing disease, making a prognosis, and prescribing specific treatment
for each patient. Epidemiologists seek to identify a specific source of infection, mode of
transmission, or causative factors in order to identify future trends and specifically recommend
control measures. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is both a challenge and a consensus for
clinicians and epidemiologists. Through this article, we review the challenges and consensus
of epidemiologists and clinicians on evidence-based medicine towards a future consensus
development for the goal of medical ethics (Medical ethics ME) with the spirit of "All for
One, One for All".