Becoming a medical information master: feeling good about not knowing everything.

摘要: The body of knowledge in medicine is growing at a phenomenal pace. Clinicians rely on many sources of medical information--journal articles and reviews, textbooks, colleagues, continuing medical education conferences, videotapes and audiotapes, and pharmaceutical representatives--although they probably have had little formal training in assessing the clinical usefulness of the information obtained from each source. Excellent reader guides on how to evaluate clinical trials and review articles have been published, but these techniques …