{"id":1978,"date":"2018-06-15T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=1978"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:18:39","slug":"ebm-intro-p12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-medicine\/ebm-intro-p12\/","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=\"0\" align=\"left\" style=\"display: inline; margin: 2px 2px 2px 5px;\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>PROBLEM: Research findings are often delayed in being implemented into clinical practice<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">FACT:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>Did you know that it takes on average 17 years for clinical research to be fully integrated into everyday practice?<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">FACT:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>Prior to the early 1990s, it was recommended that infants sleep on their stomachs despite evidence available in the 1970s that this contributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).<sup>2<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">EBM SOLUTION:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>The constant advancement and development of EBM resources, which take into account evidence from a wide variety of fields, provide clinicians with the opportunity for greater exposure to clinical evidence.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">EBM RESOURCE:<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>The<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/cochrane\/cochrane_clsysrev_articles_fs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>provides access to highly developed systematic reviews that integrate evidence from a broad spectrum of resources and that critically appraise and succinctly summarize the best available medical literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Balas, E.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC130085\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Information systems can prevent errors and improve quality<\/a>. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2001 July-August; 8(4): 398-9.<\/p>\n<p>2. Gilbert R, Salanti G, Harden M, See S.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ije.oxfordjournals.org\/cgi\/reprint\/34\/4\/874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Infant sleeping position and the sudden infant death syndrome: systematic review of observational studies and historical review of recommendations from 1940 to 2002<\/a>. Int J Epidemiol. 2005 Aug;34(4):874-87.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/resources\/tutorials\/introduction-to-evidence-based-medicine\/ebm-intro-p13\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROBLEM: Research findings are often delayed in being implemented into clinical practice FACT:\u00a0Did you know that it takes on average 17 years for clinical research to be fully integrated into everyday practice?1 FACT:\u00a0Prior to the early 1990s, it was recommended that infants sleep on their stomachs despite evidence available in the 1970s that this contributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":1914,"menu_order":1,"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\/1978"}],"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=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1978\/revisions\/4182"}],"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=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}