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Evidence‐based medicine in practice — surgery
Author(s) -
Maddern Guy J
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143407.x
Subject(s) - medicine , clinical practice , evidence based medicine , intensive care medicine , surgery , alternative medicine , family medicine , pathology
Initial reticence on the part of some surgeons, combined with a lack of, or unsuitability of, randomised controlled trial evidence, has slowed the uptake of the evidence‐based revolution in surgery. An important positive step has been the establishment of the Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures — Surgical (ASERNIP‐S) to evaluate new surgical procedures in an evidence‐based manner. To supplement information from systematic reviews, ASERNIP‐S has been involved in national data collection, which is important for production and evaluation of clinical practice guidelines. Evidence‐based practice in surgery, as in other disciplines, must be adequately resourced if it is to be widely and successfully applied.