Australian doctors do not have a basic understanding of terminology regularly used in evidence based medicine, according to a new study.
The survey, published in this week's British Medical Journal, surveyed 50 general practitioners based in Sydney.
"What this is saying is few GPs (and possibly all doctors) understand the terms of the trials they might be looking at," said Professor Paul Glasziou, one of the paper's authors, who works in evidence-based practice at the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland. ..
Article: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s537546.htm
Posted by gruwell at May 6, 2004 11:10 AM