Martin Dawes said
"I agree with this - but may I take this opportunity to suggest that rather
than just nominating the RCT's we critically appraise them (possibly using
CATMaker http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/catmaker.html) and shove them on the
web. that way others could see not only the title but the bottom line. What
say?"
I agree with martin, but I thought the idea was to have a list of articles
that changed practice? Identifying change is an important topic for
teaching research. If a lousy article changed practice, then we need to
know how this occurred. Students like to know whether research projects
make a difference in the real world. So pointing to a list as suggested i
think is enormously useful. (But also depressing. When one looks at one's
own research work & realises how little one can contol its impact on an
audience)
Would a citation count provide an objective measure of how often the
article was used to change practice? Indeed a nice little study would be
to see those articles that had high citation counts & see if they pass
muster on the CATMaker
cheers
marjan
Dr Marjan Kljakovic
Senior Lecturer in General Practice
Wellington School of Medicine
University of Otago
PO Box 7343
Wellington South
New Zealand
Tel 64-4-385 5995
Fax 64-4-385 5539
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