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Where's the Evidence: Debates in Modern Medicine

William A. Silverman and David L. Sackett

Print publication date: 1999

Print ISBN-13: 9780192630889

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192630889.001.0001

The glut of information

Chapter:
(p. 26 ) 7 The glut of information
Source:
Where's the Evidence?
Author(s):

William A. Silverman

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192630889.003.0007

This chapter presents a 1989 commentary on the growing number of medical articles being published each year. It considers the question of how readers can cope with this unprecedented glut of data. It cites editors' rising concerns over the failure of the time-honoured peer review process to control the quality of published information.

Keywords:   medical articles, medical research, peer review, medical journals

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