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'''Evidence-based medicine''' is ''"the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients."''<ref name="pmid8555924">{{cite journal |author=Sackett DL ''et al.''|title=Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't |journal=BMJ |volume=312 |pages=71–2 |year=1996 |pmid=8555924 |doi=}}</ref> Alternative definitions are "''the process of systematically finding, appraising, and using contemporaneous research findings as the basis for clinical decisions''"<ref name="pmid1404801">{{cite journal |author= |title=Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group|author=Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group |journal=JAMA |volume=268 |pages=2420–5 |year=1992 |pmid=1404801 |doi=}}</ref> or "''evidence-based medicine (EBM) requires the integration of the best research evidence with our clinical expertise and our patient's unique values and circumstances''."<ref name="isbn0-443-07444-5">{{cite book |author=Glasziou, Paul; Strauss, Sharon Y. |title=Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EBM |publisher=Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone |location= |year=2005 |pages= |isbn=0-443-07444-5 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref> Better known as EBM, evidence based medicine has roots in clinical [[epidemiology]] and the [[scientific method]], and emerged in the early 1990's in response to discoveries about variations and deficiencies<ref name="pmid18361259">{{cite journal |author=Thier SL, Yu-Isenberg KS, Leas BF ''et al'' |title=In chronic disease, nationwide data show poor adherence by patients to medication and by physicians to guidelines |journal=Manag Care |volume=17  |pages=48-52, 55-7 |year=2008 |pmid=18361259 |doi= |issn=}}</ref> in medical care to help healthcare providers and policy makers evaluate the efficacy of different treatments.
[[Image:Vacuum Column.jpg|right|thumb|183px|{{#ifexist:Template:Vacuum Column.jpg/credit|{{Vacuum Column.jpg/credit}}<br/>|}}Image 1: A [[vacuum]] distillation column in a petroleum refinery.]]


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'''Vacuum distillation''' is [[Continuous distillation|distillation]] of liquids performed at a [[pressure]] lower than [[atmospheric pressure]] to take advantage of the fact that reducing the pressure lowers the [[boiling point]] of liquids. This permits the distillation of liquids that are [[temperature]] sensitive and avoids any degradation of such liquids.
 
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Revision as of 18:47, 7 December 2013

Vacuum distillation

(GNU) Photo: U.K. Association for School Science
Image 1: A vacuum distillation column in a petroleum refinery.

Vacuum distillation is distillation of liquids performed at a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure to take advantage of the fact that reducing the pressure lowers the boiling point of liquids. This permits the distillation of liquids that are temperature sensitive and avoids any degradation of such liquids.

.... (read more)

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