HLST 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Knowledge Translation, Canadian Family Physician, Clinicaltrials.Gov
10 Apr 2018
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Abbreviations: cme: continuous medical education, mesh: medical subject headers, nih: national institutes of health (us, nlm: national library of medicine (us, pdr: ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)ia(cid:374)"s desk refere(cid:374)(cid:272)e, pmid: pubmed identification number, rss: really simple syndication. The need for information: physicians and other clinicians are continually bombarded with clinical practice guidelines, Challenges faced by clinicians: evolutionary: diseases can change over time. Some decrease and some new ones appear (polio, sars): retention: information gained from reading and cme may not be retained, accessibility: average physician may only access a limited number of journals (e. g. , Canadian family physician, but maybe not the journal of the american medical association or the lancet). New tools to stay current: blogs, wikis such as wikipedia, wikidoc and ganfyd, rss (really simple syndication) feeds, podcasts and videocasts, ted talks, social networking and social media, concerns about the quality and reliability.
