ReviewThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners1997
Evidence-based medicine and general practice.
Review in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Barriers to GPs' use of evidence-based medicine: a systematic review.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2012Pooled it
- Diabetes care in general practice: meta-analysis of randomised control trials.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998Pooled it
- Evidence-Based Medicine and Good Clinical Practice in Research in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Evidence-based general practice: a scoping review.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Democratising clinical trials research to strengthen primary health care.The Lancet. Global health · 2025Review
- Democratising the design and delivery of large-scale randomised, controlled clinical trials in primary care: A personal view.The European journal of general practice · 2024Article
- Frailty and Geriatric Medicine During the Pandemic.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Family physicians' experience and understanding of evidence-based practice and guideline implementation in primary care practice, Cape Town, South Africa.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2019Article
- Answering patient-centred questions efficiently: response-adaptive platform trials in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018Article
- Incorporating one health into medical education.BMC medical education · 2017Article
- Knowledge and attitudes of physicians towards evidence based medicine in ilam, iran.Iranian Red Crescent medical journal · 2013Article
- EBM in primary care: a qualitative multicenter study in Spain.BMC family practice · 2011Article
- [What do general practitioners think about evidenced-based medicine? A study with focus groups].Atencion primaria · 2010Article
- Evidence-based medicine among Jordanian family physicians: awareness, attitude, and knowledge.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2009Article
- Do you really care doctor?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2009Article
- The 21st century GP: physician and priest?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2007Article
- Randomized trial of the effect of research design and publication characteristics on physician change.Primary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry · 2006Article
- Are guidelines ethical? Some considerations for general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002Article
- When less is more: a practical approach to searching for evidence-based answers.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2002Review
- Evidence-based medicine: a commentary on common criticisms.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2000Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) aids clinical decision making in all fields of medicine, including primary care. General practice is characterized by particular emphasis on the doctor-patient relationship and on biomedical, personal and contextual perspectives in diagnosis. Most evidence available to general practitioners (GPs) addresses only the bio-medical perspective and is often not directly applicable to primary care, as it derives from secondary or tertiary care. Emphasis on the biomedical domain and the randomized controlled trial (RCT) alone reflects a reductionist approach that fails to do justice to the philosophy of general practice. The art of medicine is founded on context, anecdote, patient stories of illness and personal experience, and we should continue to blend this with good quality and appropriate research findings in patient care.
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9281875PMC1313058What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.