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Effectiveness and Efficiency

A. L. Cochrane
- 01 Nov 1994 - 
- Vol. 165, Iss: 05, pp 702-704
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This article is published in British Journal of Psychiatry.The article was published on 1994-11-01. It has received 373 citations till now.

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Professionalism, Indeterminacy and the EBM Project

TL;DR: In an era of concern for patient safety, EBM is proposed as part of a solution but remains itself a potent source of danger and increased indeterminacy.
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Bridging the ivory towers and the swampy lowlands; increasing the impact of health services research on quality improvement.

TL;DR: This paper explores how the disconnect between the traditional 'producers' of research evidence in academia, and the managerial and clinical 'consumers' of that evidence, has contributed to the challenge of embedding an evidence-informed approach to service improvement.
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Barriers to research implementation by community nurses.

TL;DR: The community findings from a study of nurses in community and acute settings using Funk et al's Barriers to Research Utilization Scale (Barriers) are presented, which aimed to identify the main barriers to implementing research in practice.
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Identifying and managing patients at low risk of bowel cancer in general practice

TL;DR: The basis for the government's guidelines for referral are explained, which patients require fast track referral and which can safely be treated and monitored in general practice are discussed and how to manage patients at low risk of cancer are discussed.
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Evidence-based medicine in the therapy of the acute respiratory distress syndrome.

TL;DR: The principles of EBM were first used by Sackett in 1986 for developing clinical recommendations on the use of antithrombotic agents and are still used by Cochrane today.
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Getting to grips with Archie Cochrane's agenda.

TL;DR: The results quantify a trigger leading to rapid, drought-induced die-off of overstory woody plants at subcontinental scale and highlight the potential for such die-offs to be more severe and extensive for future global-change-type drought under warmer conditions.
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