Bringing evidence to the point of care
| Autor: | Sharon E. Strata |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | Evidence Based Medicine. 4:70-71 |
| ISSN: | 1473-6810 1356-5524 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/ebm.1999.4.70 |
| Popis: | Evidence-based medicine calls for the integration of our clinical expertise and our patients9 values with the best available external evidence (1). To accomplish this, we must translate our information needs into answerable questions and then seek the best information with which to answer them (2). Critics of evidencebased medicine have appropriately suggested that its practice may require time and resources unavailable to busy clinicians (3). Davidoff and colleagues suggested that a general physician would need to read 17 articles each day to keep up with the current medical literature (4). Clinicians have little time to set aside for keeping up-to-date or for reading in between seeing patients, and self-reported weekly reading times reflect this: Consultants repoit reading from 30 to 45 minutes each week, while house officers report from 0 to 20 minutes (5). Further, some clinicians don9t have quick access to the evidence and may have to travel several floors, blocks, or even miles to visit their local library to find it. |
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