It can take the healthcare industry close to two decades to implement evidence-based care protocols. There are four reasons clinicians embrace new data at a “snail’s pace,” writes Kyle Jones, M.D., a faculty member at the University of Utah’s Family Medicine Residency Program, in an article for the American Academy of Family Physicians.
“This seems absolutely ridiculous. Why wouldn’t we want to do the best we can to help our patients?” he writes. “Many of the reasons are in our control, but many are not.”
