Success in delivering evidence-based health care relies heavily on the ready availability of current best evidence about diagnosis, treatment, and prevention options for health disorders, ideally tailored to the characteristics and context of the individual patient or population and the resources of the provider. While existing information resources fall short of perfection, the past decade has seen considerable progress, and an attractive array of services is now available for many health care decisions. Providers and consumers of evidence-based health care can help themselves to the best current evidence by recognizing the most “evolved” information services in the topic areas of ...
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