Evidence-Based Practice in Primary Care

Ed Leone Ridsdale

Harcourt Brace, £17.50, pp 176

ISBN 0 443 05889 X

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Using external evidence to inform clinical decision making is now acknowledged as an important and necessary ingredient of good clinical practice. However, using external evidence depends on formulating an answerable question, finding and appraising evidence, and applying the evidence to the individual patient. Leone Ridsdale is to be congratulated on editing a relevant and accessible book that shows how evidence based medicine …