Driving the use of reliable evidence
Wednesday 21 September 2011, 10:02AMThis month's inaugural RNZCGP/GPNZ conference was privileged to have as a video-link keynote speaker Trisha Greenhalgh, a highly reputable UK academic from the "modern" subspecialty of evidence-based medicine (EBM)
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Observing our Aussie mates
Wednesday 24 August 2011, 11:25AMAuckland GP and web reviewer Jon Wilcox takes a look across the ditch to check out the Medical Observer
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One-stop shop of 'trusted' health info
Wednesday 27 July 2011, 3:41PMAuckland GP and web reviewer Jon Wilcox checks out the web resource, the Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre, and is generally impressed with what he finds
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Scholarly focus for Google
Wednesday 01 June 2011, 1:48PMInitially unimpressed with Google's "sibling", Google Scholar, Auckland GP and web reviewer Jon Wilcox takes another look and changes his stance
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Labtests rates poorly when put to the web test
Thursday 05 May 2011, 10:47AMEighteen Months agter new pathology service Labtests began operating, Auckland GP and web reviewer Jon Wilcox thought it timely to put the Labtests site to the test, but was disappointed with what he found
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Battle lines drawn in ‘the good fight’
Friday 18 February 2011, 2:30PMThe recent publication of the Parliament Health Select Committee report has once again brought the issue of our flawed maternity system squarely into focus
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