A POEM a week for the BMJ

doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7371.983

BMJ 2002;325:983 ( 2 November )

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A POEM a week for the BMJ

A POEM is Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters

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From now the BMJ will publish every week a POEM $---$ a summary of a valid piece of research that carries information that is importantto patients and so to their doctors. Unfortunately most researchdoes not provide information that matters to patients. The POEMswill be published beside Editor's Choice. POEM stands for Patient-OrientedEvidence that Matters, and the concept was developed by DavidSlawson and Allen Shaughnessy, academics in family practice fromUniversity of Virginia in the United States. ¹ ²

The concept has its origins in a formula developed by Slawson and Shaugnessy:

U=<FR><NU>R×V</NU><DE>W</DE></FR>

where U=usefulness of the information to doctors, R=relevance of the information to doctors, V=validity of the information,and W=work to access the information. In words, the most usefulinformation for doctors is information that is relevant to theirpractice, valid, and does not take too much work to access. Afterlistening to a presentation by Maria Musoke, . . . [Full text of this article]

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