Human nature and clinical freedom, barriers to evidence-based practice?
The perceived threat to clinical freedom offered by evidence-based practice is neither logical nor surprising. Resistance to change and to authority is part of human nature. When we make decisions based upon good quality information we are inconsistent and biased. Human nature offers many challenges to evidence-based practice. Can we do a better job of promoting evidence-based practice? And even if we find and use the evidence, will we make consistent unbiased decisions?
Monaghan
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Dental Public Health Unit, Sheffield Health.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D015982:Bias; D003657:Decision Making; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D005791:Patient Care; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012017:Referral and Consultation