Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade MO, Cook DJ
Part G Moving from Evidence to Action
Chapter 22.6. Parallel but Separate Goals: Evidence-Based Practitioners and Evidence-Based Care
Gordon Guyatt, Maureen O. Meade, Brian Haynes, Roman Jaeschke, Deborah J. Cook, Mark Wilson, Scott Richardson
Parallel but Separate Goals: Evidence-Based Practitioners and Evidence-Based Care: Introduction
Topics Discussed:
evidence-based experts, evidence-based medicine, evidence-based practice, practice guidelines, teaching issues
Excerpt:
"Top-quality health care implies the practice of medicine that
is consistent with the best evidence (evidence-based
health care). An intuitively appealing way to achieve evidence-based practice is to train clinicians
who can independently find, appraise, and judiciously apply the
best evidence (evidence-based experts). Indeed, our fondest
hope for this book is that it will help you become an evidence-based
expert. The following discussion will, however, illustrate that training
evidence-based experts is not, by itself, an optimal strategy for
ensuring patients receive evidence-based health care.1..."
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