From Evidence to Practice in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada

The issue of increasing the role of research evidence, as presented in an innovative and new concept of "medical textbook," in the divergent clinical practice environments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada is addressed.

Abstract

that contribute significantly to the pale mere of practitioners: in a recent survey, practicing physicians reported that textbooks were their principal written source of clinical facts (Covell, Uman, and Manning 1985). How to give those facts color, to move them from knowledge in practitioners' heads to realized behaviors at their fingertips, is the subject of the following articles. We address the issue of increasing the role of research evidence, as presented in an innovative and new concept of medical textbook, in the divergent clinical practice environments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. However, before justifying the need to put effort into the translation of knowledge into behavior (after all, doesn't the one lead inexorably and inevitably to the other?), we must face an ethical issue. Targeted