Evidence-based medicine and the real world: understanding the controversy.
J Eval Clin Pract
; 5(2): 133-8, 1999 May.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-10471221
ABSTRACT
Controversy has surrounded the 'paradigm' of evidence-based medicine since its introduction in 1992 as a new approach to the teaching and practice of medicine. Here, we address two questions (1) is evidence-based medicine a good thing?; and (2) why has so much controversy arisen? In addressing these questions, we propose that the discussion surrounding evidence-based medicine should no longer be about whether the application of evidence in clinical practice is a good thing, because it obviously is. Instead, the debate ought to focus on the more difficult question of how to enhance its acceptability among busy clinicians practising in the 'real world'. For the future, we optimistically anticipate an enhanced adoption of evidence-based medicine, as clinicians will become increasingly capable of efficiently accessing existing and forthcoming evidence resources.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Evidence-Based Medicine
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Eval Clin Pract
Journal subject:
PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
1999
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Canada