Why Practice EBM?

PROBLEM: Practitioners must deal with an explosion of available medical literature

  • FACT: In order to keep up with the 7,827 relevant articles published monthly, a family medicine physician would need to dedicate 627.5 hours to reading the medical literature.1
  • EBM SOLUTION: Consulting critically appraised evidence-based review resources helps reduce the necessary time expended on collecting, reading, and evaluating medical literature.
  • EBM RESOURCE: The ACP Journal Club provides access to succinct enhanced abstracts for individual articles and studies that are indentified as being methodologically sound and clinically relevant.

 

1. Alper BS, Hand JA, Elliott SG, Kinkade S, Hauan MJ, Onion DK, Sklar BM. How much effort is needed to keep up with the literature relevant for primary care?. J Med Libr Assoc. 2004 Oct;92(4):429-37.

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