In helping clinicians to learn there is no doubt that the practice of EBHC
must be incorporated into a busy schedule. Pre-processed sources such as
Cochrane are where I encourage them to look first. This does not preclude
the use of other sources and indeed much of my time is spent ensuring that
they are able to use the more general sources effectively and efficiently
too. One clinicians learn to use the resources and to value them the issue
for most in practice is access to them and this is inevitably related to
money. If institutions and governments are serious about improving quality
in health care they must make the resources readily available to
practitioners. This includes supporting preprocessed sources and also
transparently paying for the time required to continue to learn.
Dr Davida De La Harpe
Senior Lecturer in Evidence Based Health Care
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
123 St Stephens Green
Dublin 2
Phone 353 1 4022739
Mobile 353 86 2635412
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-----Original Message-----
From: padmanabhan badrinath [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 January 2002 17:08
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Sources of evidence
Dear All,
Greetings from Al-Ain the oasis city. I just returned from OMAN (our
neighbouring country) where I acted as a facilitator in the just concluded
EBM workshop which was well attended. We had experts from both sides of the
atlantic (Oxford & McMaster) as facilitators.
I got the impression that now there is a move to move towards preprocessed
information (Cochrane, Clinical evidence, ACP journal club and Up to date).
Please see http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7240/954
Although I agree with this in principle I am of the opinion that as all
these resources have to be paid for (by some one) it may not be easily
available to all. Hence I feel that sources in the public domain (clinical
query in PubMed, National guideline clearing house and possibly others)
should still be an option when looking for evidence.
Any thoughts...
Cheers & regards,
Badri
Dr.P.Badrinath M.D.,M.Phil.,(Epid) PhD(Cantab)DFPHM(UK).,MPH(Distinc)
Clinical Assistant Professor & Hon Consultant in Preventive Medicine,
Department of Community Medicine,
UAE University, PO Box 17666, Al Ain,
United Arab Emirates.
Tel: 00 971 3 7039 652
Fax: 00 971 3 7672022.
http://myprofile.cos.com/badrishanthi
"For an excellent review of the current medical literature, go to Journals
Scan www.uaeu.ac.ae/jscan/" - BMJ 3rd June 2000, Netlines
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