What is it about?
This article aims to review the available literature on how clinicians meet the daily challenge of translating medical information into clinical evidence-based medicine (EBM).
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Why is it important?
This article describes the procedures involved in a local initiative in the UK to develop software applications for implementation of national clinical guidelines to enhance EBM in routine clinical practice.
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This study highlights a potentially effective way of implementing and integrating an electronic guideline‐based computer system into local practice. It shows that reliable high quality guidelines from reputable professional bodies could be successfully implemented at the primary or hospital‐based levels through a series of coordinated multidisciplinary interactive processes.
Dr Michael O Ogundele
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Postgraduate Medical Centre
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This page is a summary of: Challenge of introducing evidence based medicine into clinical practice, Clinical Governance An International Journal, August 2011, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/14777271111153859.
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