I survived. In a recent post I worried that the bigwigs at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) would be underwhelmed by my contention that one of the main—and perhaps the most important—functional requirements to get more information used in clinical practice is trust in the information. I was worried the polysyllabic crowd at the Roundtable […]
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Pritpal S Tamber: Doctors only trust doctors
I’m petrified. I’ve been invited to participate in the Institute of Medicine‘s Roundtable on value and science driven healthcare. The focus of the all-day meeting is “continuous learning and the digital infrastructure for informed clinical decisions,” and the bit that I’m expected to speak about are the “functional needs for digital information at the point […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Err, so what are we talking about again?
Orbiting around the hallowed nucleus of the doctor-patient relationship is an entire healthcare industry that occasionally—although not often enough—impacts on clinical practice. Having spent five years in this orbit one of the things I’ve concluded is that no one really knows what anyone else is saying. That may seem like an inflammatory remark so let […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Evidence and the real world
There is a lot of angst around why research evidence takes so long to penetrate routine clinical practice. My view is that it’s a miracle that any of it makes it into practice at all because research derived information is very much the square peg to clinical practice’s round hole. The gold standard of experimental […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Soft-wiring knowledge
Knowing when and how to apply established knowledge into practice is difficult. A recent article in The Lancet shows why. The thickness of the inner walls of the carotid artery is associated with cardiovascular disease; so much so that the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) support the use of […]