Evidence-based recommendations were created and then categorized using criteria adapted from the United States Preventive Services Task Force, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Being a new concept and dynamic research method, the evidence-based librarianship has been directly influencing the study of Library Science and its strategic planning.

The author introduced EBM' conception and characters, comparing it with experience medicine, discussing TCM oncology and TCM characters respectively, and their relationship with EBM.