Abstract

The sheer number of medical publications precludes most practicing clinicians from thoroughly reading, fully analyzing, adequately interpreting, and satisfactorily integrating into their practice a large amount of contemporary information contained in the published medical literature. This is further compounded by the often complicated statistical methods used to analyze and report the data in many published manuscripts. Furthermore, the limitation of space in most medical journals prevents a thorough dissertation on the particular issue, its full meaning, and potential impact.