Malaysian Family Physician (Oct 2013)
Evidence-based practice in Malaysia: where are we and what more can be done?
Abstract
As a young family medicine trainee in the early 1990s and like many other colleagues, I was quite excited by the intense debate on the role of evidence-based medicinein the BMJ and the Lancet,1-3 and closely followed publications from the ACP Journal Club, BMJ’s Evidence-Based Medicine journal and As a young family medicine trainee in the early 1990s and like many other colleagues, I was quite excited by the intense debate on the role of evidence-based medicinein the BMJ and the Lancet,1-3 and closely followed publications from the ACP Journal Club, BMJ’s Evidence-Based Medicine journal and based clinical practice guidelines. However, adoption of these clinical practice guidelines by healthcare practitioners remains patchy.
