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The implementation of evidence-based medicine in general practice prescribing.

C Salisbury, N Bosanquet, E Wilkinson, A Bosanquet and J Hasler
British Journal of General Practice 1998; 48 (437): 1849-1852.
C Salisbury
Division of Primary Health Care, Bristol University, London.
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N Bosanquet
Division of Primary Health Care, Bristol University, London.
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E Wilkinson
Division of Primary Health Care, Bristol University, London.
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A Bosanquet
Division of Primary Health Care, Bristol University, London.
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J Hasler
Division of Primary Health Care, Bristol University, London.
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BACKGROUND: Research on the implementation of evidence-based medicine has focused on how best to influence doctors through information and education strategies. In order to understand the barriers and facilitators to implementation, it may also be important to study the characteristics of those doctors and practices that successfully implement evidence-based changes. AIM: To determine the relationship between practice and doctor characteristics and the implementation of recommended evidence-based changes in the area of prescribing. METHOD: Visits were made to 39 practices in southern England. Audits of three key prescribing changes were carried out and amalgamated to produce an 'implementation score' for each practice. These scores were related to a wide range of practice and doctor variables obtained from a questionnaire survey of doctors and practice managers. RESULTS: There was wide variation between the practices' implementation scores (mean 67%, range 45% to 88%). The only factors that had a significant relationship with implementation of these important prescribing changes were an innovative approach among the doctors (most practitioners were cautious of change), and fundholding status. Use of clinical protocols, disease registers, or computers was not associated with overall implementation score, nor was the doctor's age. Doctors complained of information overload. CONCLUSIONS: The emphasis on the need for evidence in medicine, and better transmission of information, needs to be balanced by a recognition that most general practitioners are pragmatic, averse to innovation, and already feel overwhelmed with information. Important advances in therapy may be crowded out. More attention should be given to the facilitation of priority changes in practices.

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