Getting evidence to prescribers and patients or how to make EBM a reality.

Bringing all available evidence on therapy efficacy to users is a necessary step in the evidence-based medicine paradigm. Today, the needs of physicians in medical information, including therapeutic information, are not met. Further, the information reaching the doctors is rarely consistent with the available evidence.

How should therapeutic information be transferred to users?

Without an efficient solution to the problems that prevent prescribers and consumers having easy access to published and unpublished evidence, Evidence-Based Medicine will never become a reality. Among the problems, dissemination of the summarized evidence is a major one. It involves representing the summarized evidence in a format that corresponds to the users' needs and knowledge, interpreting it within the context of other related evidence, putting it in perspective, and then delivering it physically to the users at the appropriate time.