Disadvantages Of Toxicology

EBM can be used as a check-sheet to ensure physicians conducts everything. EBMs do not think. It is the job of the physician to think.
The most essential goal of medicine and public health is to prevent harm. This goal is only fully achieved with primary prevention, which requires us to identify and prevent harms prior to human exposure through research and testing that does not involve human subjects. For that reason, public health policies place considerable reliance on nonhuman toxicological studies. However, toxicology as a field has often not produced efficient and timely evidence for decision making in public health. In response to this, the U.S. National Research Council called for the adoption of evidence-based methods and systematic

Access to healthcare is limited in rural areas. Also, these settings are usually geographically remote, making it harder for physicians to attend continuing medical education activities. EBM may have particular relevance and advantages for rural health practice. In Australia, the level of clinical knowledge was found to be low among rural practitioners. The evidence-based approach is imperative in a setting where resources are limited because this approach emphasizes the use of treatments with proven efficacy. The practice of EBM enables health service managers to determine services that will give the greatest benefit to the community served. However, there are challenges in adopting EBM in rural practice. These include greater time pressure, inapplicable standard clinical guidelines, poorer access to research databases, isolation and lack of organizational support and resources. Rural practitioners also tend to be generalists; their breadth of practice makes implementation of EBM challenging. There has been little empirical research on the processes that drive the adoption of EBM in this setting. This study is part of a larger project, the Frontline Equitable Evidence-based Decision-Making study (FrEEDoM), which aims to develop an intervention to assist doctors in retrieving evidence to assist clinical decision making. The