Self-Study from Web-Based and Printed Guideline Material

Letters20 March 2001Self-Study from Web-Based and Printed Guideline MaterialDouglas S. Bell, MD, PhD, Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, and Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPHDouglas S. Bell, MD, PhDUniversity of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736 (Bell, Fonarow, Mangione)Search for more papers by this author, Gregg C. Fonarow, MDUniversity of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736 (Bell, Fonarow, Mangione)Search for more papers by this author, and Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPHUniversity of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736 (Bell, Fonarow, Mangione)Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-134-6-200103200-00030 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:We thank Dr. Blank for highlighting the tension in medical education between teaching simplified rules for patient care and teaching the underlying primary evidence. We agree that the latter approach should support more robust decision making, but it also generally requires more time. Our intervention was intended to facilitate learning both guideline recommendations and the evidence that underlies them, but, as we noted, few of the participants pursued the evidence in depth. The participants may have shared an attitude that was found recently among British general practitioners—they do not have time to pursue critical appraisal of the primary ...References1. McColl A, Smith H, White P, Field J. General practitioner's perceptions of the route to evidence based medicine: a questionnaire survey. BMJ. 1998;316:361-5. [PMID: 0009487174] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Guyatt GH, Meade MO, Jaeschke RZ, Cook DJ, Haynes RB. Practitioners of evidence based care. Not all clinicians need to appraise evidence from scratch but all need some skills [Editorial]. BMJ. 2000;320:954-5. [PMID: 0010753130] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: University of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736 (Bell, Fonarow, Mangione) PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoSelf-Study from Web-Based and Printed Guideline Materials Douglas S. Bell , Gregg C. Fonarow , Ron D. Hays , and Carol M. Mangione Self-Study from Web-Based and Printed Guideline Material Robert D. Blank Metrics 20 March 2001Volume 134, Issue 6Page: 534-535KeywordsComputersDecision makingMedical educationPatientsQuality improvement ePublished: 20 March 2001 Issue Published: 20 March 2001 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2001 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...