Evidence-based medicine and COVID-19: what to believe and when to change.
Emerg Med J
; 37(9): 572-575, 2020 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1024251
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a surge of information being presented to clinicians regarding this novel and deadly disease. There is a clear urgency to collate, review, appraise and act on this information if we are to do the best for clinicians and patients. However, the speed of the pandemic is a threat to traditional models of knowledge translation and practice change. In this concepts paper, we argue that clinicians need to be agile in their thinking and practice in order to find the right time to change. Adoption of new methods should be based on clinical judgement, the weight of evidence and the balance of probabilities that any new technique, test or treatment might work. The pandemic requires all of us to reach a new level of evidence-based medicine characterised by scepticism, thoughtfulness, responsiveness and clinically agility in practice.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Coronavirus Infections
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Critical Pathways
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Evidence-Based Medicine
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Translational Research, Biomedical
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Pandemics
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Emerg Med J
Journal subject:
Emergency Medicine
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Emermed-2020-210098
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