Clinical practice can be difficult to change, even when existing evidence suggests it should change. Various initiatives to foster changes in clinical practice (journals, guidelines, meetings, consensus statements, etc.) have had a variable impact. What effect does doing clinical research have upon local clinical practice? We looked at data on sedation and analgesia in adult intensive care units (ICUs) before and after they did a clinical study, and compared this with data from similar ICUs where no study was done. All ICUs belonged to the collaborative group 'Gruppo italiano per la Valutazione degli interventi in Terapia Intensiva' (GiViTI).
Local clinical research and chanqes in locai clinical practice
DAVID, Antonio;
2003-01-01
Abstract
Clinical practice can be difficult to change, even when existing evidence suggests it should change. Various initiatives to foster changes in clinical practice (journals, guidelines, meetings, consensus statements, etc.) have had a variable impact. What effect does doing clinical research have upon local clinical practice? We looked at data on sedation and analgesia in adult intensive care units (ICUs) before and after they did a clinical study, and compared this with data from similar ICUs where no study was done. All ICUs belonged to the collaborative group 'Gruppo italiano per la Valutazione degli interventi in Terapia Intensiva' (GiViTI).Pubblicazioni consigliate
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