INFORMATION ON THERAPEUTICS - HOW TO TRAN SFER THE ACTUAL STATE OF KNOWLEDGE

The information on therapeutics is moving at a high path for various c auses. Now, tools for informing correctly the prescriber do exist. How ever, they require the operation of suitable structures. The mainstem of the system consists of an intermediairy which should comply with ap propriate rules. It will work from an exhaustive collection of pertine nt information. This will allowed by the extensive use of literature d ata banks and clinical trial registries kept with the help of internat ional collaboration. If will rank the strength of evidence of the coll ected data according to their internal validity. If will elaborate ove rviews from validated data obtained from meta-analysis, and messages r eadily readable by the users, and accessible whenever needed. Overview s will be used to set up guidelines, references, editorials... Data ba nks will be accessible to researchers, teachers, officers concerned by health care.