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InnovAiT 2009 2(10):619-625; doi:10.1093/innovait/inp083
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the RCGP. All rights reserved. For permissions please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Getting a better grip on research: the fate of those who ignore history

Dr Neal Maskrey

National Prescribing Centre, Evidence Based Therapeutics, Liverpool

Professor Trisha Greenhalgh

Research Department of Primary Care and Population, University College London

E-mail: Neal.Maskrey{at}npc.nhs.uk


  Abstract

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it

George Santayana

American philosopher and poet, 1863–1952

This is the first paper in a series of five describing the use of evidence to support decisions made in clinical practice. The series covers large elements of Statement 2: The general practice consultation, Statement 3.3: Ethics and values based medicine and Statement 3.5: Evidence-based practice of the GP Curriculum.


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