How should therapeutic information be transferred to users?

Abstract

Without an efficient solution to the problems that prevent prescribers and consumers having easy access to published and unpublished evidence, Evidence-Based Medicine will never become a reality. Among the problems, dissemination of the summarized evidence is a major one. It involves representing the summarized evidence in a format that corresponds to the users' needs and knowledge, interpreting it within the context of other related evidence, putting it in perspective, and then delivering it physically to the users at the appropriate time. The current formats, vehicles and representation models, e.g. those for guidelines or textbooks, do not seem efficient enough to fill in the gap of knowledge. We suggest that a new approach is possible by reducing the transferred information to its core and integrating it through appropriate representation models into the doctor's decision-making process.

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