Physicians must stay up-to-date on changes in clinical treatment guidelines.

In today's medical economy, cost effectiveness is becoming a bigger factor in developing standardized clinical practice guidelines.

Evidence-based medicine has the potential to offer objectivity and standardized practices into an often subjective decision-making process.

Clinical judgment and experience often trump evidence-based practice guidelines in physicians' medical decision-making process.

Clinical judgment and experience often trump evidence-based practice guidelines in physicians' medical decision-making process.

Strengthened NIH policies of inclusion have resulted in more NIH-funded research including more women and other underrepresented population groups as subjects in medical research.

Standards of care in medicine have gone through many changes and developments over the course of its history.