Best Available Evidence: Overcoming Barriers and Building a Platform for Clarity and Closer Collaboration

The term “best available evidence” has become an “agreed language” between healthcare providers, as it lays the foundation for clinical reasoning and serves as a unifying force across various medical disciplines. Using the “best available evidence” to guide medical decision-making, can trace its roots to the emergence of evidence-based medicine (EBM) popularized in the 1990s by Gordon Guyatt and his colleagues at McMaster University. EBM paved the way for a paradigm shift in medicine, emphasizing the need to make clinical decisions based on data from well-conducted research rather than relying solely on personal experience or anecdotal evidence.