General practitioners' perceptions of the route to evidence based medicine: a questionnaire survey

Which of these methods would you be interested in using in the future?
Please tick one or more boxes. a b c

Which of these methods do you think is the most appropriate in General Practice?
Choose one only. a b c

Please can you describe how the practice of evidence based medicine could be further facilitated in your own Practice?

What do you think are the major barriers to practising EBM in General Practice?

Accessing the evidence
How often in the last year have you (or someone on your behalf) used MEDLINE or another bibliographic database for literature searching?
times

When did you last do a search which influenced your practise?
Month Year

What was the topic?

Have you ever received formal training in search strategy?
No Yes

If so, where?

Have you ever received formal training in critical appraisal?
No Yes

If so, where?

Have you attended any other course related to evidence based medicine?
No Yes

If so, which one?

Where do you have access to MEDLINE (or other bibliographic databases)?

At home
yes no

In my surgery
yes no

At my local medical library
yes no

Other (please specify)

Where do you have access to the World Wide Web?

At home
yes no

In my surgery
yes no

At my local medical library
yes no

Other (please specify)

There are a growing number of extracting journals, review publications and databases relevant to EBM. Please indicate those which you have used or are aware of

Please list other sources of information that you have found relevant to EBM

Technical Terms
The following are terms used in papers about EBM which may be relevant to General Practice. Please indicate your reaction to them by ticking the appropriate box.

Finally, we would like to ask you a few questions about your practice and yourself.

Practice Details

Practice Size?
<5,000 5,000-<10,000 10,000-<15,000 15,000-<20,000 20,000+

Number of full time equivalent Principals?

Practice Setting?
Rural Urban Mixed

Fundholding Practice?
Yes No

Training Practice?
Yes No

Undergraduate Teaching Practice?
Yes No

Personal Details

Gender
Male Female

Age
<_30 input="input" type="Checkbox"> 30-39 40-49 50-59 60+

MRCGP
No Yes Year

Principal
Full-time ¾ time ½ time ¼ time Other

Nearest Postgraduate Centre?