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Table 2 Resources to solve a health care problem

From: The design, fate and impact of a hospital-wide training program in evidence-based medicine for physicians – an observational study

 

Total

Never/rarely

Often/very often

p-value*

Resources

 

n

%

%

 

Colleagues

Before:

173

3 %

79 %

 

After:

172

2 %

65 %

0.0002

Internet resources, e.g., PubMed, Google

Before:

170

15 %

56 %

 

After:

174

1 %

85 %

<0.0001

Textbooks

Before:

173

13 %

48 %

 

After:

171

36 %

23 %

<0.0001

Journals (original research reports and review articles)

Before:

172

22 %

44 %

 

After:

171

5 %

69 %

<0.0001

Electronic resources, computer databases available from the Hospital/University library

Before:

171

64 %

20 %

 

After:

172

9 %

62 %

<0.0001

Secondary journals and Clinical Practice Guidelines, e.g., Cochrane, Clinical Evidence, EBM-Guidelines, Up To Date

Before:

170

73 %

5 %

 

After:

174

4 %

76 %

<0.0001

  1. Distribution of responses before and after training to the survey questions ”What types of resource do you use /do you think you will use to solve a specific health care problem?” *Wilcoxon test for matched pairs – comparison of the values before and after the training