Integration of care

摘要

Trish Greenhalgh asks why Cochrane reviews are so boring.1 Strange that she should ask such a question on this particular platform. Many colleagues ask me the same question about the BJGP[identified as I am as the local RCGP stooge because of my varied faculty activities during the course of my career). My answer in both contexts is the same: of course they are boring to practitioners because the job of practitioners is (no surprises) to practice. Both Cochrane reviews and the research articles appearing in the BJGP, nevertheless, are essential to the progress of practical medicine. We turn to them when we need them.