Evidence-based medicine audit as a tool for improving emergency ophthalmology
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Is ophthalmology evidence based? A clinical audit of the emergency unit of a regional eye hospital.
AIM To evaluate the proportion of interventions that are evidence based in the acute care unit of a regional eye hospital. METHODS A prospective clinical audit was carried out at Hong Kong Eye Hospital in July 2002 to investigate the extent to which ophthalmic practices were evidence based. The major diagnosis and intervention provided were identified through chart review. A corresponding lit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eye
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0950-222X,1476-5454
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6703029