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Exploring How Evidence is Used in Care Through an Organizational Ethnography of Two Teaching Hospitals.

Bryn LanderEllen Balka
Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2019)
This paper outlines one way through which the ethos of evidence-based medicine has been incorporated into the daily work of care. Here, multiple Web-based forms of evidence were mixed with other information. This is different from the way that is often articulated by health administrators and policy makers whereby clinical practice guideline adherence is equated with practicing evidence-based medicine.
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