An interesting blog 'Should we teach evidence based medicine?' from the Health Informationist argues that using some Evidence Based medicine techniques may be inappropriate in practice at some levels and it may be more important to teach information skills for finding information about existing evidence and best practice.
(Isn't this a bit obvious? I ask myself. However it raises the issues involved in the recent NHS discussion document Liberating the NHS: an Information revolution, where the emphasis seems to be on using nhs statistics to produce new evidence rather than on learning to access existing research and best practice documents
(Isn't this a bit obvious? I ask myself. However it raises the issues involved in the recent NHS discussion document Liberating the NHS: an Information revolution, where the emphasis seems to be on using nhs statistics to produce new evidence rather than on learning to access existing research and best practice documents
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