Yet more evidence … changing professional practice

Changing Professional Practice Theory and Practice of Clinical Guidelines Implementation

Health care professionals may have difficulties in keeping up-to-date with the overwhelming and fast growing volume of new scientific evidence for good clinical practice. Often there is an unacceptable time lag between the time of having a valid research basis for a specific procedure and the point when the procedure has been adopted in practice. This may lead to suboptimal care. Clinical guide...

More Evidence of Professionalism and Professional Engagement

Utilizing Evaluation Evidence to Enhance Professional Practice

The purpose of this article is to reexamine the current use of what is to count as evaluation evidence to inform professional practice. The provision of evaluation evidence to inform decision making has long been an aspiration, albeit with varying degrees of success. However the need to reexamine the utility of this endeavour has arisen in the contemporary culture of evidence-based policy and p...

Changing practice with evidence-based aphorisms.

102 British Journal of General Practice, February 2013 The Australian Family Physician (AFP ) is the journal of the RCGP’s Australian cousin, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners — consider it Neighbours to the BJGP’s Eastenders. The AFP has started an interesting series of articles looking at the evidence behind some medical aphorisms. They have examined whether a careful hist...

Yet more evidence that osteoarthritis is not a cartilage disease.

I n this issue of the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, Tan et al report the results of high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (hrMRI) of interphalangeal joints of 20 subjects who had ‘‘clinically osteoarthritic’’ and painful finger joints for ,l year. The MRI observations are supported by histological and radiographic examination of dissecting room specimens of apparently non-arthritic interph...