Attenti Alle Bufale ('Beware of Red Herrings'), or, How toMake Evidence-Based Medicine Work for You
| Autor: | Tom Jefferson, Lucia Zarra, Liviu Stoica |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: | |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 99:625-627 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1095 0141-0768 |
| DOI: | 10.1258/jrsm.99.12.625 |
| Popis: | During the year, busy healthcare workers have little time for reading or reflecting. This fact conflicts with the need to keep up-to-date with what is going on in medicine and to track the avalanche of paper, audio and electronic inputs we receive. The obvious starting point is a topic of interest, but we also need to select something which has some kind of credibility, either scientific or ethical or both (although some tell me there is no difference between the two). So we now have two linked problems: the quantity and the quality of the scientific works that we read. The quality issue seems to be an easy one to solve: if something is in print it has undergone ‘routine quality control measures’ such as peer review and should be good enough, especially if published on the more prestigious journals. And if something has passed peer review then the quantity issue can be solved quickly by reliance on reviews, meta-analyses, editorials, evidence-based journals and the good old network of friends and colleagues who ‘give you the wink’ on a good piece of research. Alas, not everything is so easy in life, research or medical practice. Often what seems is not what is. Let's start from quality control mechanisms as they apply to the publication of research papers and then move on to the issue of quantity. Quality (essentially editorial peer review, publishing's main quality control mechanism) is the key to understanding the issue of quantity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|