Clinical questions in primary care: Where to find the answers - a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Clinicians raise at least one question for every two patients they see, but search for an answer to less than half of these questions, and rarely use evidence-based resources. One barrier to evidence-based practice is doubt that the search would yield an answer, and we found insufficient evidence to refute this concern. This study aims to identify what proportion of clinical questions in primary care can be answered with online evidence-based practice resources, and what proportion of these can be answered with pre-appraised evidence.

Materials and methods

Cross-sectional study in two primary care practices. The inclusion criteria were family doctors, generalists and residents working in 2 selected practices. We collected a total of 238 questions from 19 family

SUBMITTER: Viegas Dias C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9651552 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature