Radiologists' perspectives about evidence-based medicine and their clinical practice: a semistructured interview study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe radiologist's attitudes and perspectives on evidence-based medicine (EBM) and their practice.

Design

Face-to-face semistructured interviews, thematic analysis.

Setting

24 institutions across six Australian states and New Zealand. Transcripts were imported into HyperRESEARCH software and thematically analysed.

Participants

25 radiologists.

Results

Six themes were identified: legitimising decisions (validated justification, prioritising patient preferences, reinforcing protocols), optimising outcomes (ensuring patient safety, maximising efficiency), availability of access (requiring immediacy, inadequacy of evidence, time constraints, proximity of peer networks, grasping information dispersion), over-riding pragmatism (perceptibly ap

SUBMITTER: Tong A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4265099 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature