BACKGROUND Health care professionals worldwide attend courses and workshops to learn evidence-based medicine (EBM), but evidence regarding the impact of these educational interventions is conflicting and of low methodologic quality and lacks generalizability. Furthermore, little is known about determinants of success. We sought to measure the effect of EBM short courses and workshops on knowled...

PURPOSE To determine the attitudes and beliefs of Iranian urologists toward Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and investigation of the barriers of evidence based practice (EBP). MATERIALS AND METHODS A self- administrated, Likert scale questionnaire designed in Persian and filled up by censuses selected urologist from Iranian Urology Association (IUA). Data were entered to Predictive Analytics So...

BACKGROUND Doctor-patient communication has been influenced over time by factors such as the rise of evidence-based medicine and a growing emphasis on patient-centred care. Despite disputes in the literature on the tension between evidence-based medicine and patient-centered medicine, patients' views on what constitutes high quality of doctor-patient communication are seldom an explicit topic f...

The National Plan of Prevention (PNP 2014-2018) [1], which is the key document for the Italian Public Health, underlines the need to realize for all people an empowerment level able to increase or maintain the health control. At international level, the Ljubljana Charter [2] contains the sanitarian systems commitment to rearrange, in the aim to improve continually the quality, with reference to...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the methodological quality of published randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in burn care treatment and management. METHODS Using a predetermined search strategy we searched Ovid MEDLINE (1950 to January 2008) database to identify all English RCTs related to burn care. Full text studies identified were reviewed for key demographic and methodological characteristics. Metho...

BACKGROUND Some migraine patients find that regular exercise helps in reducing the frequency of headache attacks. In addition, exercise in migraine is recommended from many headache experts. However, most of these recommendations refer to some anecdotal reports or observational studies in literature stating that regular exercise can reduce the frequency and severity of migraine. OBJECTIVE The...

BACKGROUND The characteristics of practising general practitioners who teach evidence based medicine (EBM) during their clinical work--and their attitudes toward it--are poorly known. METHODS One hundred and twenty-two Canberra GPs who previously had medical students attend their practice were sent a questionnaire on their education, experience, knowledge, confidence, and attitudes toward tea...

Circumcision is the oldest planned operative procedure in the history of human civilization, but there continues to be a lack of consensus and strong opposing views on whether universal neonatal circumcision should be adopted as a public health measure. The American Academy of Pediatrics 2012 guideline on male circumcision (MC), reversed its prior stand, stating that the “health benefits of new...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based practice (EBP) provides nurses a method to use critically appraised and scientifically proven evidence for delivering quality health care and the best decision that leads to quality outcomes. The purpose of this study was to measure the practice, attitude and knowledge/skill of evidence-based practice of nurses in a teaching hospital in Iran. METHODS This cross-secti...

To the Editor: We applaud the efforts by Brian F. Degenhardt, DO, and colleagues,1 published in the October 2010 JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, to document maintenance and improvement in the interexaminer reliability of osteopathic physicians’ palpatory skills. Because reliable palpatory diagnosis is fundamental to osteopathic diagnosis and treatment, this subject mat...