Towards evidence-based medicine for paediatricians

It’s obvious Those of you reading this section are, most probably, convinced as to the value of skills in question forming, literature searching, critical appraisal and action on evidence. You’re committed, in some degree, to the practice of evidence-based medicine. To you, it’s obvious. If you weren’t you though, it might not be so clear. If you were being forced to do critical appraisal checklists, to recite the litany of potential biases and crunch relative risks and numbers needed to harm because your school, college or postgraduate course demanded it... and particularly if that was a section tacked onto the end of the real content ... you might be grizzled and grumpy. How do we, the ‘It’s Obvious’ gang, allow those coming up and through to appreciate where they may well need these apparently meaningless skills? Perhaps we need to state more why we are making clinical decisions, to...

Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - September 19, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Phillips, B. Tags: ADC Archimedes Source Type: research