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Evidence-based surgical practice requires cultural change, knowledge management, and shared decision-making to overcome the gap between research recommendations and routine clinical care.
Discusses the challenges and importance of implementing evidence-based practice in routine surgical care.
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Emphasizes implementation barriers in surgery; leaves open which strategies best achieve cultural change and shared decision-making.
Surgery as a discipline has perhaps been slower than other specialties to embrace evidence based principles. Today, surgeons all over Asia are prepared to challenge the dogma of yesterday. Surgical science which rests on a strong foundation of laboratory and clinical research can now be broadened to include the armamentarium of evidence based practice to advance surgical knowledge. The sheer volume of easily accessed information creates a new challenge. This article discusses keeping up with new information and finding the best available answers to specific questions amidst all the other information.
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Maheshwari et al. (2012) conducted a review in Evidence-based surgical practice. Evidence-based surgical practice requires cultural change, knowledge management, and shared decision-making to overcome the gap between research recommendations and routine clinical care.
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