Open AccessEvidence-Based Clinical Practice. General Concepts and Reasons for Use in Surgery
Author(s) -
Carlos Manterola
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of medical and surgical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0719-532X
pISSN - 0719-3904
DOI - 10.32457/ijmss.2014.014
Subject(s) - medicine , biostatistics , health care , reading (process) , medical education , epidemiology , the internet , clinical practice , clinical epidemiology , engineering ethics , nursing , computer science , pathology , engineering , political science , world wide web , law
The evidence-based clinical practice (EBCP), is an important issue for clinicians in general; and surgeons as clinicians, we must not stand apart from it, because given the role that we play as educators of future generations of clinicians and surgeons, and due to the avalanche of information from the Internet, must be updated on critical evaluation of the literature to which our students access permanently. On the other hand, the EBCP has even invaded the field of management and administration in health, and in our work, with some frequency we are confronted with healthcare management and administration activities. EBCP involves a series of converging disciplines such as clinical epidemiology, critical reading of biomedical research, research design, biostatistics, health technology assessment, management and health management, etc. The aim of this manuscript was to present s