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01.04.2006 | Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Evidence-based medicine—from best research evidence to a better surgical practice and health care
Erschienen in: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery | Ausgabe 2/2006
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Background
The use of the terms evidence-based medicine (EBM) and healthcare (EBHC) has become commonplace in the medical as well as in the surgical literature. Using the best available evidence, however, is not yet a working routine among surgeons because of the large amount and complexity of published research and the lack of user-friendly tools and necessary skills for the use of research results.
Discussion
This article encourages to formulate surgically relevant questions and to answer them on the basis of high-quality research, preferably by using systematic reviews which are based on the quality criteria of the Cochrane Collaboration.
Conclusions
As currently only 77 Cochrane reviews address surgical procedures; much work remains to be done to enlarge the number of high-quality and relevant reviews. Similarly, the number and quality of randomized controlled trials need to be increased in all surgical specialties.