ABSTRACT
The context of general practice makes the translation of evidence into clinical practice difficult. General practitioners interested in implementing evidence met at The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' 2006 Annual Scientific Convention. We discussed evidence based medicine (EBM) journal club as a solution to this problem, including keys to success and barriers to overcome. The aim of this article is to provide suggestions for those wishing to set up their own EBM journal club. This will be supported as a Category 1 CPD activity by The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in the 2008-2010 triennium.
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Evidence-Based Medicine/education , Family Practice/education , Periodicals as Topic , Australia , Focus GroupsABSTRACT
In 2000, the Newcastle Institute of Public Health (NIPH) undertook a project that aimed to review, identify and where necessary, develop a range of indicators of quality service provision in general practice. We describe the way in which quantitative and qualitative research methods (including a Delphi style survey) were combined to investigate consensus amongst stakeholders in defining quality indicators. Over 500 general practice stakeholders were consulted. They included general practitioners (GPs) and their representative groups, academics, policy makers, and consumers. Several important lessons were learnt from the process, including the importance of involving a broad representative group of stakeholders, informing workshop participants in advance, providing adequate response times for the Delphi surveys and using videoconferencing technologies.