{"id":1955,"date":"2018-06-15T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=1955"},"modified":"2019-12-20T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:00:19","slug":"ebm-intro-p9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-medicine\/ebm-intro-p9\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Practice EBM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medlib\/files\/2018\/06\/types_sm_fil.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"212\" alt=\"\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" style=\"display: inline; margin: 5px 5px 5px 15px;\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>PROBLEM: Practitioners must deal with an explosion of available medical literature<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">FACT:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>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.<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">EBM SOLUTION:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>Consulting critically appraised evidence-based review resources helps reduce the necessary time expended on collecting, reading, and evaluating medical literature.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">EBM RESOURCE:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>The<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/annals-org.ezproxy.bu.edu\/aim\/journal-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACP Journal Club<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>provides access to succinct enhanced abstracts for individual articles and studies that are indentified as being methodologically sound and clinically relevant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Alper BS, Hand JA, Elliott SG, Kinkade S, Hauan MJ, Onion DK, Sklar BM.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC521514\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How much effort is needed to keep up with the literature relevant for primary care?<\/a>. J Med Libr Assoc. 2004 Oct;92(4):429-37.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-medicine\/ebm-intro-p10\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROBLEM: Practitioners must deal with an explosion of available medical literature FACT:\u00a0In 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:\u00a0Consulting critically appraised evidence-based review resources helps reduce the necessary time expended on collecting, reading, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":1914,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6980,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1955\/revisions\/6980"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}