BMJ 2004;329 (30 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7473.0-c
"Mindlines" are still preferred to guidelines
Doctors and nurses in general practice may still rely more on collectively reinforced, internalised, tacit guidelines ("mindlines") to guide their practice than on high quality research evidence. In an ethnographic study set in two highly regarded general practices in England over two years Gabbay and le May (p 1013) found that primary care doctors and nurses rarely accessed and used research evidence. The authors propose ways in which formal and informal professional networks could provide better evidence.
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