Author: Guest Author

The pace at which information is being published is almost too intense to conceive. Critical appraisal of the literature is a skill unto itself. It has been estimated that if an individual attempted to keep up with all the literature related to their own discipline by reading one article per day, by the end of one year he/she would be 99 years behind. The AHCPR guidelines; which were the first governmentally sanctioned review leading to the recognition of the value of high velocity, low amplitude procedures for acute, adult low back pain; located over 10,317 articles. When culled to the relevant ones for the task only 3,918 were left. So how do you select relevant literature for inclusion in a review process like that being attempted by CCGPP for Best Practices?