TY - JOUR T1 - Evidence and judgement JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 98 LP - 98 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X683737 VL - 66 IS - 643 AU - Tim Senior Y1 - 2016/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/643/98.abstract N2 - If I mention evidence-based medicine do your eyes light up, or do your shoulders slump? I’m still an enthusiast for evidence-based medicine — after all, if we don’t use best available evidence in our practice, what else do we have? I still get rather too much enjoyment from a good PubMed search, and I still get excited about journal articles that might improve my practice. But what I see in practice doesn’t seem to match the expectations of students coming through my consultations, or even the expectations of policy makers.The students have been taught that the path to an answer in any consultation is to formulate a PICO — patient, intervention, comparison, outcome — … ER -