A Brief History of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and the Contributions of Dr David Sackett

Achilleas Thoma, MD, MSC, FRCS(C), FACS; and Felmont F. Eaves III, MD, FACS

In January 2007 the British Medical Journal contacted an
online poll of its readers, and evidence-based medicine
(EBM) was ranked seventh among the 15 most important
milestones that shaped modern medicine……..