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Implementing Evidence

PROLOGUE

Implementing Evidence

PROLOGUE: No medical research helps patients if clinicians do not adopt the practices supported by evidence. As Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), notes in the following section, research has undergone explosive growth, and yet there is a seventeen-year delay between evidence and clinical practice. In spite of developing research, medical practice in many cases remains the province of clinical experience and judgment that is not always supported by the available science.

How best to implement the practices that improve the quality of health care is the topic of the three papers here. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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