Table 3.
Participants’ responses regarding evidence-based medicine (EBM)
| Question | No (%) of physicians from: |
|
|---|---|---|
| family medicine | university hospitals | |
| Do you have access to specialized EBM databases?* |
||
| yes |
222 (63.4) |
89 (39.9) |
| no |
106 (30.3) |
117 (52.5) |
| I do not know |
22 (6.3) |
17 (7.6) |
| Which EBM databases do you use? (open-ended question)† |
||
| MEDLINE |
41 (11.7) |
10 (4.5) |
| PubMed |
2 (0.6) |
24 (10.8) |
| MedScape |
2 (0.6) |
9 (4.0) |
| The Cochrane Library |
5 (1.4) |
4 (1.8) |
| OVID |
0 |
7 (3.1) |
| SCOPUS |
0 |
5 (2.2) |
| PLIVAmed.net |
3 (0.9) |
0 |
| In the hierarchy of evidence in medicine, the top level evidence is: |
||
| case report |
135 (38.6) |
12 (5.4) |
| prospective cohort study |
30 (8.6) |
39 (17.5) |
| systematic review of randomized controlled trials |
153 (43.7) |
146 (65.5) |
| single randomized controlled trial |
31 (8.9) |
11 (4.9) |
| Where did you get basic information about EBM? |
||
| undergraduate education |
35 (10.0) |
12 (5.4) |
| postgraduate school |
82 (23.4) |
47 (21.1) |
| continuous medical education |
229 (65.4) |
127 (56.9) |
| other | 8 (2.3) | 37 (16.6) |
*P < 0.01, χ2 test.
†Open-ended question with a possibility of more than one answer by a single respondent.