Haynes R B, McKibbon K A, Fitzgerald D, Guyatt G H, Walker C J, Sackett D L
Ann Intern Med. 1986 Aug;105(2):309-12. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-105-2-309.
For practitioners, one of the major objectives for reading the medical literature is to maintain clinical competence. Ideally, this task is accomplished through efficiently extracting from the literature properly validated advances in medical knowledge of direct relevance to the reader's own practice. Practically, the extraction process is a difficult one because reports describing such advances are disseminated through a multitude of general and specialty journals. We describe a preemptive strategy for clinicians to determine which journals to read on a regular basis. General and specialty journals of potential relevance to the reader's practice should be selected initially on the basis of circulation or citation impact, and then consecutive issues surveyed to determine the journals' yields of articles that are both directly relevant and of high quality. Subsequent reading should concentrate on the journals that produce the highest yield on this personal survey.
对于从业者而言，阅读医学文献的主要目标之一是保持临床能力。理想情况下，这项任务是通过有效地从文献中提取与读者自身实践直接相关且经过充分验证的医学知识进展来完成的。实际上，提取过程颇具难度，因为描述此类进展的报告通过众多综合性期刊和专业期刊传播。我们描述了一种先发制人的策略，供临床医生确定应定期阅读哪些期刊。与读者实践可能相关的综合性期刊和专业期刊应首先根据发行量或被引影响力来选择，然后对连续几期进行调研，以确定这些期刊中直接相关且高质量的文章产出量。后续阅读应集中在个人调研中产出量最高的那些期刊上。
