October 20th: World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day

15/10/2025
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Belgian healthcare professionals feel evidence-based practice (EBP) helps taking decisions, inform patients and improves quality of care. Information in their own language and contextualized to the Belgian context is appreciated.

Thus, healthcare professionals need access to trustworthy information. Several Belgian organizations, like Cebam, JBI Belgium and Cochrane Belgium, evaluate, translate, contextualize or collate trustworthy information to fill this gap. Patients value shared decision making. Belgian organisations provide information specific for patients, which can be used by healthcare professionals. Also, the general public needs to learn how to distinguish facts from fake information on health. However, several challenges remain.