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[The Cochrane Collaboration and the practice of evidence-based cardiology]
1Centro de Estudos de Medicina Baseada na Evidência, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa.
Insights
Evidence-based Cardiology (EBC) requires reliable information to guide patient care. The Cochrane Collaboration offers systematic reviews, providing essential data for rational and updated cardiological practice.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Evidence-Based Medicine
Context:
- The practice of Evidence-based Cardiology (EBC) demands current, scientifically sound information.
- The overwhelming volume of medical literature presents challenges in identifying relevant data.
Purpose:
- To outline the principles of Evidence-based Cardiology (EBC).
- To highlight the importance of selecting, critically appraising, and synthesizing scientific evidence.
- To identify The Cochrane Collaboration as a key resource for EBC.
Summary:
- EBC facilitates a rational and updated clinical approach to patient management.
- Effective EBC relies on credible, independent, and scientifically robust information.
- The Cochrane Collaboration provides systematic reviews, offering a solution to information overload.
Impact:
- Supports modern, efficient, and rational cardiological practice.
- Enhances clinical decision-making through accessible, high-quality evidence.
- Empowers healthcare professionals with synthesized research findings.
Abstract:
Evidence-based Cardiology (EBC) permits a rational and updated clinical approach to patients. The EBC practice needs credible, independent and scientifically solid information, but the sheer volume of the medical bibliography precludes individual solutions: we have too much information and what is relevant is sunk within what is irrelevant or useless. Selection, critical appraisal and synthesis of the best scientific evidence constitutes the basis of EBC. The Cochrane Collaboration is the best source of independent, updated and valid information: through published systematic reviews, the evidence is available in the format of CD-ROM, and can serve as the basis for a modern, efficient and rational cardiological practice.