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Origin.

The systems traditionally used by physicians to update their knowledge, such as attending conferences or subscribing to medical publications in their fields, are no longer enough in a world in which there exist more than 30.000 medical publications, the best 4000 thereof publishing more than 400.000 articles each year, and where only 15% of which follow a scientific methodology which is sufficiently correct to guarantee the reliabilty of results.

Physicians understand the need to keep their knowledge up to date and they attempt to do so, but few are versed in the handling of modern computerized methods which are indispensable for handling such a volume of data. Likewise, most of them are unaware of the methods which enable a speedy screening of the information based on scientific quality, in order to select reliable articles that are worthy of study.

Lastly, health care pressure means that often the physician does not have sufficient time to review the hundreds of thousands of articles published each year, to identify those referring to his/her specialty, to evaluate the scientific quality in order to reject those whose results could be counterproductive due to having been obtained via a scientifically incorrect methodology and, finally, to study those selected in detail.

The success of the seminars on methodology and documentation that the Kovacs Foundation began in 1996 with the physicians in the Balearic Islands has meant the extension of this project to the whole body of Spanish -speaking health care professionals.

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