Integrating evidence based medicine into clinical practice.
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Evidence-Based Medicine↗
Biomedical subjects
Hugh McGavock
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Strategies and tactics for effective prescribing during the foundation year.
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Clinical Competence↗
Prescription-related illness--a scandalous pandemic.
Prescribed drugs are now a major cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in the elderly. The extent of this pandemic is described and its likely causes in primary care are identified: unnecessary prescribing, imprecise diagnosis, inadequate undergraduate and postgraduate education in pharmacology and therapeutics, the uncritical application of evidence-based medicine, the outstanding development of new drugs and their sometimes unjustified promotion. Urgent action is recommended under seven headings, by health administration, epidemiologists, medical educators and prescribing doctors.
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