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[The practice of Internal Medicine in Andalusia follows the evidence-based medicine basic principles]
J L Zambrana García1, M J Velasco Malagón, F Díez García
1Area de Medicina, Hospital Alto Guadalquivir, Andújar, Jaén. jzambrana@ephag.es
Basis:
To know the proportion of medical interventions carried out in the Services of Internal Medicine of the public hospitals of Andalusia based on randomized clinical trials.
Patients And Methods:
We have analyzed the primary treatments prescribed in a random sample of 326 patients admitted to these Internal Medicine services during 1998.
Results:
One hundred and forty-three of the 326 treatments analyzed (43.9%) were based in clinical trials and 135 (41.4%) were interventions unanimously accepted by the medical community without being based in clinical trials.
Conclusions:
Most of the primary Andalusian treatments prescribed in the Internal Medicine services are evidence-based.
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