Dear List Members: My colleagues and I are planning a qualitative research to identify barriers to accept the concept of and to follow the guidance of Evidence-Based Medicine in clinical settings in our country. I would appreciate any information which may help us designing this study, especially of similar studies conducted in other nations. Hideki Nomura, M.D., Ph.D. Deputy Director/Associate Professor Department of General Medicine Kanazawa University Hospital Kanazawa 920-8641, JAPAN