LETTER
Clinical Experience and Evidence-Based Medicine
Jaywant J.P. Patil, MBBS, FRCPC
1 February 1998 | Volume 128 Issue 3 | Page 245
TO THE EDITOR:
Badgett and colleagues' article on using systematic reviews in clinical practice [1] correctly points out the advantages and disadvantages of depending on systematic review of the medical literature in clinical decision making and clinical teaching. I was rather surprised that previous clinical experience of senior physicians was not at all considered as a tool for clinical decision making and clinical teaching. Previous clinical experience is as valuable as systematic review of the literature.
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Dalhousie University; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1. Badgett RG, O'Keefe M, Henderson MC. Using systematic reviews in clinical education. Ann Intern Med. 1997; 126:886-90.
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