@MISC{Glasziou08inclinical, author = {Paul P Glasziou}, title = {IN CLINICAL PRACTICE — EDITORIAL Information overload: what’s behind it, what’s beyond it?}, year = {2008} }
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Literature alert services, good evidence-based resources and real-time decision support can all help to reduce information overload f all disease was caused by the four humours; if our only treatments were blood-letting, purging or cold baths; and if all research was forbidden, medicine would be much easier. But medicine has changed, and is changing, more than most practitioners recognise. While no organisation keeps a precise count of the number of diseases, the expert system DiagnosisPro