The Gap between What is Knowable and What We Do in Clinical Practice

The Gap between What is Knowable and What We Do in Clinical Practice

Maartje H.J. Swennen
ISBN13: 9781609605612|ISBN10: 1609605616|EISBN13: 9781609605629
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-561-2.ch705
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Swennen, Maartje H.J. "The Gap between What is Knowable and What We Do in Clinical Practice." Clinical Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 1900-1921. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-561-2.ch705

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Swennen, M. H. (2011). The Gap between What is Knowable and What We Do in Clinical Practice. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Clinical Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (pp. 1900-1921). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-561-2.ch705

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Swennen, Maartje H.J. "The Gap between What is Knowable and What We Do in Clinical Practice." In Clinical Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1900-1921. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-561-2.ch705

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Abstract

Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) is a tool that aims to bring science and medicine together by enabling doctors to integrate the latest best evidence with their clinical expertise and the individual patient’s wishes and needs. However, EBM has both strong supporters and antagonists and is confronted with many barriers that impede uptake of the best evidence by doctors. To date, it remains poorly understood why doctors, do, and do not, incorporate high quality evidence into their routine practice. I will take you down the road of how I became more and more intrigued by all the challenges that EBM faces. In addition, I will explain to you how I hope to contribute to closing the gap between what is knowable using EBM methods and what we do.

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