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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. CD present and unopened. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Clinical Evidence is intended as a tool for clinicians and thereby patients to help them make evidence based healthcare decisions. Our task is to provide information that is as accessible as possible without undue simplification. We aim to support the partnership between clinicians and patients that lies at the heart of good health care. We are working towards a future in which the information in Clinical Evidence can be personalised and synchronised with the electronic patient record acknowledging that most interactions between patients and clinicians are complex and that ‘evidence’ is only one part of the equation. In a truly knowledge based health system the flow of knowledge would form a virtuous circle or (as characterised in figure 1) a figure of eight. Healthcare providers and patients generate questions during consultations. If there aren’t ready answers in evidence based guidelines or handbooks questions should be assessed by systematic review of the literature. Systematic reviews may identify good evidence to support clinical decisions in which case this can be fed into practice. If a systematic review finds insufficient evidence to support a clinical decision this represents a gap in our knowledge base which should be fed into the research agenda. Ultimately new research should be incorporated into further systematic reviews and the results of these used to guide practice. And so the cycle continues. The quality of information available at each stage depends on the quality of the information provided by the stage before. (LL)