Rev Bras Oftalmol.2013;72(3):155-156
The value of the critical analysis of the literature for continuing medical updating
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-72802013000300001
Continuing medical updating is crucial for the safety and good quality of medical practice. Today, the less expensive, easy and trustful way of acquiring medical knowledge is through literature review in electronic data banks, which are available on the internet. Accordingly, a minimum knowledge on behalf of the reader is necessary to critically evaluate scientific articles and not to have his clinical practice based on information which cannot stand for the truth (1,2) […].