Announcing a new International e-mail discussion group
FROM EVIDENCE TO PRACTICE?
Primary care physicians are encouraged to make their clinical practice
`evidence-based': to use the findings of research to inform their
daily management of patients' presenting problems and treatment.
But what counts as `evidence'? And what is involved in turning the
findings of a research study into practical decisions? How important
is the context of primary care for determining which `evidence' is
used and which discarded as inappropriate. Is research conducted in
one country appropriate for other parts of the world?
This new discussion group, part of the WISDOM project on
information management and informatics in primary care will take
a long hard look at these issues. Participants from around the
world will be invited to address critically how primary care can move from
evidence to daily practice.
It will challenge the `sacred cows' of evidence-based medicine, for
instance, questioning the applicability of the randomised controlled
trial to primary care settings.
Please consider joining ebp-wisdom. Its free, and the issues raised
will be both stimulating and informative.
To join, send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] with
no subject and the message line:
join ebp-wisdom your e-mail address
(for example join ebp-wisdom [log in to unmask])
WISDOM is a project funded by the United Kingdom Department of Health
to support information management and informatics for primary care
professionals.
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Nick Fox, University of Sheffield, UK
Tel: (UK) (0)114 271 5044
Fax (UK) (0)114 242 2136
http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/personal/md1njf/index.html
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