Dear Adrian
I was unaware I was anonymous. Further details on request.
Believe me, I have no wish to censor your thoughts or behaviour.<g>
I am currently trying to assemble useful information for an evidence based
heatlh care course. Any suggestions for the most reliable and valid
sources of evidence based primary care?
Less would be more...
>An anonymous person identified as Sara Godward <[log in to unmask]>
>notes on the
>>Subject: Re: An evolving professional duty to the Web
>
>>I think we should be cautious about encouraging the information
>>explosion.
>Where have you _been_?
>Encourage it? You would need something massively serious to even slow
>it down. Try a global EMP from the subcontinent for instance.
>Still, you can use the internet to present to the world your view that
>we should not communicate our notes to each other if you choose<g>
>
>>Peer review may be flawed and systematic review may be inappropriate
>>(and/or flawed) but you can put more trust in a journal article (of
>>whatever design) in its original state than an (anonymous) individual's
>>notes and queries.
>Depends on the journal and the individual. ANonymous? Many of the
>people on this list have seen each other, or each others' pictures,
>know where we work and so on.
>No Web page which does not have a link to the author is reliable, IMHO.
> but this is just a section of teh HONCode.
>
>>Or is the intention to have a series of monitored web pages of distilled
>>evidence?
>Please feel free to distill, monitor etc.
>Ideally you would distill evidence on something which you had monitored
>the Web to find out what is there, and found a dearth of useful and
>credible evidence.
>
>>Mind you, keeping track of the current distilled evidence / secondary
>>data
>>sources is increasingly difficult.
>Impossible, I think, not difficult.
>Hence the occasional centralist heresyof control (read limitation)
>surfacing
>>Which (if any?) of the current sources of summary evidence does everyone
>>find most useful?
>HON
>Pubmed
>At least one person has found my page on Poland Syndrome most useful,
>and sent a very warm fuzzy e-mail to me as a result. I won't tell you
>the URL, search the web.
>
>>>Supposing you, as a doctor, decide to research something in order to
>>>manage a patient.
>>>
>>>Going to the Web you find nothing much of use or note.
>>>
>>>You therefore make searches in other ways, coming in the end to have a
>>>small set of notes which have satisfied your need at that time.
>>>
>>>IMHO you now have a duty to place those on the Web.
>>>
Dr Sara Godward
Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield Campus
Hertfordshire
AL10 9AB
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http://igor.herts.ac.uk/cripacc/
tel 01707 285214
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