Abstract
The literature does not provide a clear definition of Evidence based Healthcare(EBHC) and there is some uncertainty between authors as to whether the concepts ofEBHC and Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and Evidence-based dentistry (EBD) arecomparable and the terminology is interchangeable. However the most frequently useddefinition of EBHC is: Evidence-based medicine (EBM)References
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