Evidence-based practice (EBP) is one of the most important developments in decades for the helping professions, which includes medicine, nursing, social work, psychology, public health, counseling, and all the other health and human service professions. Evidence-based practice is an outgrowth of evidence-based medicine. Initially, evidence-based medicine was defined as the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. Later the term evidence-based practice (EBP) was coined which broadened the definition of evidence based medicine to also include the integration of individual clinical expertise, individual patient preference, and the best available external clinical evidence form systematic research in order to best guide clinical decision making.

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