Table 3

Frequency of use of several evidence-based information resources

Rarely or never
n (%)
1 to 3 times a month
n (%)
1 to 3 times a week
n (%)
Almost every day
n (%)
Total number of respondents
Clinical practice guidelines (specialty societies, HAS, NICE, etc)35 (16.6)65 (30.8)80 (37.9)31 (14.7)211
PubMed (Medline)102 (52.9)65 (33.7)25 (12.9)1 (0.5)193
Cochrane Library148 (78.7)34 (18.1)6 (3.2)0188
Embase, ScienceIndex or CINAHL160 (93.6)8 (4.7)3 (1.7)0171
DARE113 (97.4)3 (2.6)00116
TRIP, SUMsearch or ACCESSSS168 (98.3)3 (1.7)00171