health systems across the world are concerned with the quality and safety of patient care. this includes investing in research and development to progress advances in the treatment and management of individuals and healthcare organisations. the concept of evidence- based healthcare has gained increasing currency over the last two decades; yet questions persist about the time it takes for new re...

This review describes the emerging global debate on the role of human rights childbirth. It is also tailored to a UK perspective in view of the Montgomery v. Lanarkshire [2015] legal ruling and it implications to practice. We can never underestimate the power of humane care on health. The compassion and evidence based medicine agenda in healthcare is interconnected with human rights in healthca...

Evidence based medicine (EBM) is a discipline which synthesises research findings on the effectiveness of medical treatments to support clinical decision making. To make a practical difference, this information needs to be disseminated and used in everyday clinical practice. This paper describes a highly successful knowledge management project, which uses the Internet to make the latest medical...

BACKGROUND Clinicians are encouraged to practice evidence-based medicine (EBM) as well as patient-centered medicine. At times, these paradigms seem to be mutually exclusive and difficult to reconcile. It can become even more challenging when trying to include the preferences of the patient's family members. This paper discusses the basis for this quandary, providing examples of the real-world i...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Teaching evidence-based medicine is becoming more frequent in family medicine residency education, as is the teaching of information mastery, which is using techniques to answer clinical questions at the point of care and to keep up with changes in medical knowledge. The goal of this study was to determine the effect of an integrated curriculum of information mastery o...

Uncertainty is a pervasive and important problem that has attracted increasing attention in health care, given the growing emphasis on evidence-based medicine, shared decision making, and patient-centered care. However, our understanding of this problem is limited, in part because of the absence of a unified, coherent concept of uncertainty. There are multiple meanings and varieties of uncertai...

background in recent times, there has been a growing demand internationally for health policies to be based on reliable research evidence. consequently, there is a need to strengthen institutions and mechanisms that can promote interactions among researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders who can influence the uptake of research findings. the health policy advisory committee (hpac) is on...

Background There is need to strengthen institutions and mechanisms that can more systematically promote interactions between researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders who can influence the uptake of research findings. In this article, we report the outcome of a two-way secondment model between Ebonyi State University (EBSU) and Ebonyi State Ministry of Health (ESMoH) in Nigeria as an in...

healthcare decisions are often made under pressure, with varying levels of information in a changing clinical context. with limited resources and a focus on improving patient outcomes, healthcare managers and health professionals strive to implement both clinical and cost-effective care. however, the gap between research evidence and health policy/clinical practice persists despite our best eff...