TY - JOUR T1 - Evidence-Based On Call Acute Medicine JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 168 LP - 168 DO - 10.1136/ebm.6.6.168 VL - 6 IS - 6 AU - Jon C Tilburt AU - Rajesh S Mangrulkar Y1 - 2001/11/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/6/6/168.abstract N2 - Evidence-Based On Call Acute Medicine was designed to bring “what we really know” about acute illness to hospital physicians. Motivated by the lack of use of evidence in practice, Ball and Phillips compiled this book along with the companion web site (http://www.eboncall.co.uk [not reviewed]) to be a dynamic, continuously revised data resource to inform real clinical decisions in the hospital. As such, we evaluated the book's ability to address our clinical questions on the basis of 3 important criteria: the quickness of retrieving the information, the reliability of the data presented, and the sufficiency (or completeness) of the answers. Ball CM, Phillips R.Evidence-Based On Call Acute Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2001. Evidence-Based On Call Acute Medicine presents > 1000 critically appraised topics (CATs) to support the sequence of management steps that make up the care of patients admitted to hospital. The book is quite ambitious, presenting an exhaustive amount of data to support, … ER -