G. Guyatt reported the first paper on Evidence Based Medicine(EBM) at 1991.
Everybody could understand rapidly the necessary of EBM to diagnose and medical treat the patients from then.
So, I will tell you the recent actions of EBLM committee of Japan Society of Clinical Laboratory Medicine(JSLM/C-EBLM) related with EBM. I define EBLM(Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine) has the total functions to use the clinical laboratory data by evidence for the diagnosis and the therapy of patients.
JSLM/C-EBLM was seted up at 1999 and supported EBD(Evidence-Based Diagnosis) Forums as the main action.
JSLM/C-EBLM will make and use practically the new meta-analysis tools and educate about EBLM from now.

*Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Hiroshima University, Graduated School of Biomedical Science, Hiroshima 734-8551