introduction: journal clubs play an important role in teaching evidence based medicine (ebm). evidence based journal clubs focus on real problems of the group, and set a minimum level of evidence for articles to be presented, and in the end a clinical bottom line is set to be used in the daily clinical practice. in this article, we have explained our experience in running evidence based journal...

Physicians’ daily need for valid information about diseases, their limited time for finding this information, the inadequacy of traditional sources (E.g. textbooks) to address this matter, the disparity between physicians diagnostic skills and clinical judgment (Which increase with experience) and their up to date knowledge and clinical performance (Which decline by time), as well as dramatic d...

Traditional herbal medicine plays a significant role in the treatment of epilepsy. Though herbal medicine is widely used in antiepileptic treatment, there is a lack of robust evidence for efficacy and toxicity of most herbs. Besides, the herbal medicine should be subject to evidence-based scrutiny. In this context, we present a review to introduce the effects of herbal medicine on epilepsy. How...

introduction: it has been found that the decision-making process in medicine is affected, to a large extent, by one’s experience, individual mentality, previous models, and common habitual approaches, in addition to scientific principles. evidence-based medicine is an approach attempting to reinforce scientific, systematic and critical thinking in physicians and provide the ground for optimal d...

results of the 120 distributed questionnaires, 94 questionnaires were completed and returned (78.3%). about 56.6% of participants used the internet to answer the questions about their patients. there was a significant relationship between patient-related barriers and manager-related barriers (r = 0.237, p = 0.023). post hoc tests showed that there is a significant difference between the attitud...

conclusions knowledge and attitude of young physicians were more based on ebm compare to old physicians. a significant difference in knowledge mean score of physician shows that the ebm is still new in iran, the future physician’s critical need to learn ebm and necessity of entering emb at all medical levels. results of the 120 questionnaires we have sent, 94 (78.3%) were answered. 56.6% were u...

emergency physicians, like other specialists, are faced with different patients and various situations each day. they have to use ancillary diagnostic tools like laboratory tests and imaging studies to be able to manage them. in most cases, numerous tests are available. tests with the least error and the most accuracy are more desirable. the power of a test to separate patients from healthy one...

evidence based medicine is very important for success of modern medicine. it is the ongoing process of using the most reliable evidence from clinical studies, scientific understanding and medical practice to make the best possible medical choice for patients. evidence based medicine is how medicine advances and how we get improvements in life expectancy and quality of life. it not only identifi...

Though advances in medical science have created improved therapies, often these are not widely provided throughout the health-care system. Also, there is growing recognition of the lack of safety in health-care delivery. The development of evidence-based, best practice, national guidelines has been encouraged to reduce unnecessary variation in care and for improving quality. Adoption of guideli...

Pan African Medical Journal. 2013 16:89 doi:10.11604/pamj.2013.16.89.2782 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/16/89/full © George Thomas et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), w...