Researchers found insufficient congruence between EBM familiarity and competency scores. However, academic, research and advanced-degree gastroenterologists and those with recent EBM training showed higher EBM competency.
Most gastroenterologists in the survey regularly utilized the EBM-related resource UpToDate more often than PubMed or Clinical Evidence.
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