The National High Blood Pressure Education Program presents the complete Seventh
Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment …

Objectives: To determine information seeking behavior of physicians. Data sources:
Systematic review of 19 studies that described information seeking behavior in a number of …

A large number of taxonomies are used to rate the quality of an individual study and the
strength of a recommendation based on a body of evidence. We have developed a new …

Summary points Doctors use some two million pieces of information to manage patients, but
little research has been done on the information needs that arise while treating patients …

Boundary objects are entities that enhance the capacity of an idea, theory or practice to
translate across culturally defined boundaries, for example, between communities of …

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transfor-tion of health
care by using information and knowledge to advance the quality of patient care. Launched in …

Objectives: Medicine must keep current with the research literature, and keeping current
requires continuously updating the clinical knowledgebase (ie, references that provide …

Studies of the application of research in policy and service delivery suggest that the
translation of research findings into practice is not straightforward. Practitioners are criticized …

Objective: To present and discuss disablement models and the benefits of using these
models as a framework to assess clinical outcomes in athletic training. Background …

Traditional clinical review articles, also known as updates, differ from systematic reviews and
meta-analyses. Updates selectively review the medical literature while discussing a topic …