A comparison of evidence-based medicine practices between primary care physicians in rural and urban primary care settings in Malaysia: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to compare the evidence-based practices of primary care physicians between those working in rural and in urban primary care settings.

Research design

Data from two previous qualitative studies, the Front-line Equitable Evidence-based Decision Making in Medicine and Creating, Synthesising and Implementing evidence-based medicine (EBM) in primary care studies, were sorted, arranged, classified and compared with the help of qualitative research software, NVivo V.10. Data categories were interrogated through comparison between and within datasets to identify similarities and differences in rural and urban practices. Themes were then refined by removing or recoding redundant and infrequent nodes into major key themes.

Participants

There were 55 p

SUBMITTER: Hisham R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082445 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature