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Improving effectiveness of clinical medicine: the need for better translation of science into practice

Robert G Fassett, Bill Lancashire and Anne Rasmussen
Med J Aust 2013; 198 (1): . || doi: 10.5694/mja12.11621
Published online: 21 January 2013

To the Editor: Scott and Glasziou’s recent article about the challenges of integrating best research evidence into practice had excellent examples of the 20%–30% of treatments that remain widely used despite being shown to be ineffective or harmful.1 We also note the National Health and Medical Research Council initiative in creating a Research Translation Faculty to improve research relevance and its uptake into practice.


  • 1 University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.
  • 2 Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, QLD.
  • 3 Port Macquarie Base Hospital, Port Macquarie, NSW.


Correspondence: r.fassett@uq.edu.au

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

  • 1. Scott IA, Glasziou PP. Improving effectiveness of clinical medicine: the need for better translation of science into practice. Med J Aust 2012; 197: 374-378. <MJA full text>
  • 2. Webster J, Osborne S, Rickard CM, Hall J. Clinically indicated replacement versus routine replacement of peripheral venous catheters. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2010; (3): CD007798.
  • 3. Rickard CM, Webster J, Wallis MC, et al. Routine versus clinically indicated replacement of peripheral intravenous catheters: a randomised controlled equivalence trial. Lancet 2012; 380: 1066-1074.

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