Towards evidence-based medicine for paediatricians

Vimes’ boots If you are lucky enough to have read Pratchett’s Men at Arms,1 you will almost certainly remember one of the best descriptions of the mechanics of socioeconomic inequity that has ever been delivered. It mostly concerns footwear, and I am encouraging you right now to flick away from the Archives and go seek out what Cpt Sam Vimes said about boots. Now you are back, you will wonder how this plays to evidence-based practice. Particularly if you are working in a healthcare system where access to treatment is not directly dependent on an ability to pay for assessment, care and medication. But it probably still does. Consider where the questions which trigger the five-step process come from. Particularly consider those generated by the parents and carers. These may be more likely to come from more educated, empowered or richer families. They have a greater resource...

Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - December 14, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Phillips, B. Tags: ADC Archimedes Source Type: research