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Analysis of Emergency Physicians' Perception and Application of Evidence-Based Medicine

The purposes of this study were to understand emergency physicians¡¦ perception, attitude and application of evidence-based medicine(EBM). This cross-sectional study employed quantitative methods. Regarding the quantitative method, the study population included emergency physicians in southern Taiwan of 32 participating hospitals. Structured questionnaires were sent to emergency physicians, a total of 214 questionnaires were distributed with 189 questionnaires being returned. The response rate was 88.32%. Descriptive statistics was used in data analysis. The major findings were: 1. Emergency physician¡¦s perception of EBM: The average score in Physicians¡¦ understanding EBM terminologies were from 1.88 to 2.79(score ranged from 1 to 4, 1 represented fully understand). 2. Emergency physician¡¦s attitude of EBM: a. There were over a half (57.7%) emergency physicians had taken EBM training courses, while 93.1% expressed their willingness to attend EBM activities in the future. b. Most emergency physicians(86.7%) agreed that application of EBM was useful in clinical practice. c. The major barriers of emergency physicians to apply EBM were lack of time(57.1%), lack of EBM knowledge(50.3%), lack of research methodology knowledge(45.5%) and hardness of critical appraisal(40.7%). d. In general, emergency physicians hold positive attitudes toward EBM, the average score was from 1.79 to 3.09 (score ranged from 1 to 5, 1 represented the most agree). 3. Emergency physician¡¦s application of EBM: a. The average proportion of EBM application in emergency physicians¡¦ clinical practice was 54.42% . b. Emergency physician¡¦s choice of clinical problem-treating was diverse, only little clinical problem may have uniform opinions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0706108-055152
Date06 July 2008
CreatorsKao, Yi-kai
ContributorsHsiu-fen Tan, Hung-fu Tseng, Ying-chun Li
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0706108-055152
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