Guidelines are not evidence: the research to practice gap
The patient would come in with a printout.
You know the one. Pulled from a website you’ve never heard of, about a mechanism you weren’t taught in medical school, asking about a test that isn’t in your standard workup. For a long time, my answer was some version of: I’m not familiar with that, the evidence isn’t there, let’s focus on what we know. Which was the honest answer. It was …
Guidelines are not evidence: the research to practice gap
