Evidence-based medicine among hospital doctors in Jordan: awareness, attitude and practice.

Objectives: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the awareness and attitude of hospital doctors towards evidence-based medicine (EBM) and their related educational needs.

Methods: A questionnaire study was performed on a randomly selected sample of 386 hospital doctors from both a teaching hospital and the Ministry of Health general hospitals in Jordan. Attitude towards EBM, best method of moving from opinion-based medicine to EBM, accessing and interpreting evidence and perceived barriers to practise EBM among participants were the main outcome measures.

Awareness, attitude and practice of evidence-based medicine among primary health care doctors in Jordan.

Objectives: To assess the awareness, attitude and knowledge towards evidence-based medicine (EBM) among primary health care doctors in Jordan and to identify the perceived barriers for practising EBM.

Methods: A simple random sample of 34 comprehensive primary health care centres was selected from a list of 64 centres in Jordan using random number table. A family doctor visited all selected centres and invited the available doctors to participate in the study.