International Healthcare Research Journal 2021;5(7):RV1-RV4. INTRODUCTION “Human history is mostly the story of error and accident.” -Michael A. Ledeen In today’s advanced era, many of the decisions are based upon gut feeling, intuition, or instinct rather than relied on actual scientific data and facts. Though presence of facts and figures is already available but due to the lack of an individual’s interest and resistance towards information it results in errors and problems. Everyone, be it a person, a society or an establishment has made errors in the form of imprecise beliefs or decisions. In earlier times, errors and mistakes in evidence-based decision making must have been greater than that in the recent times. Before, the research and the findings were far lesser than that which we can find today. 1 Written material is widely accepted and is like the Holy Grail for evidence-based decision making. It gets updated and new research findings are added so that errors can be decreased giving us better results. Errors can occur anywhere in the process of decision making. It can be on an individual level by considering beliefs and interpretation of information on their own and can result in inaccurate application of the process. Disposition and aversion to information can also result in errors while making decisions. Our main aim is to identify and reduce these errors so that the quality and quantity of the result is not hampered. The categories which can be included for improvement are basically reduction in time, cost, effort, dispute, disease and many other possibilities. 2 We know that eliminating all the errors in one go is not possible. But the severity and the frequency can be reduced and should be considered our main goal. Some of the prerequisites which should be followed at an individual level include accepting the fact that there may be errors in any evidence; the individual should be willing to identify the errors and lastly they have to accept that research attempts to obtain justifiable facts and evidence. 3 Thus, it’s important and essential to do the needful based on facts and not feelings for the best possible outcomes. Evidence-based decision making (EBDM) is an ideal model which we can use to ensure that you are considering relevant facts and not something that is not proven. Evidence based decision making is a process that helps in making decisions about a program, practice, or policy that is grounded in the best available research evidence and informed by experiential evidence from the field and relevant contextual evidence. All the information present in scientific research with good outcome should always considered while taking a decision. Three categories which are mainly the part of this framework are contextual evidence, best available research evidence and experiential evidence. 4 Evidence Based Decision Making: A Review REVIEW A B S T R A C T ISSN: 2456-8090 (online) DOI: https://doi.org/10.26440/IHRJ/0507.10468 TWESHA HUIDROM* 1 , RAVNEET MALHI 2 In today’s era, many of the decisions are based upon gut feeling, intuition, or instinct rather than relied on actual scientific data and facts. It’s important and essential to do the needful based on facts and not feelings for the best possible outcomes. Evidenc e based decision making in the field of healthcare describes the integration of basic rules of evidence as they evolve into implementation in daily practices. In dentistry, the principles of evidence-based decision making as well as a very common clinical dilemma to make a decision on whether to save and preserve the natural tooth or to extract and replace it with an implant or any sort of prosthesis is often experienced by a clinician easily. The need of evidence plays a very important role in making decisions. It helps provide a better outcome which will result in fewer casualties. KEYWORDS: Evidence-Based, Medicine, Dentistry, Decision, Error QR CODE © Twesha Huidron et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY-NC 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the use is not commercial and the original author(s) and source are cited. Submitted on: 14-Jul-2021; Accepted on: 11-Oct-2021 RV1