Many of you will know Ruth Sladek as the former library manager at the Repatriation General Hospital in Adelaide and from the her clinical evidence researcher service study. Supported by a NICS grant, Ruth is these days undertaking a PhD on the cognitive biases and uptake of evidence in clinical practice. From the NICS website: "When we make decisions we often rely on ‘mental rules of thumb’ (also known as heuristics). These are based on past experience and are used more frequently in times of uncertainty. This study investigates the relationship between reliance on heuristics and the uptake of evidence in medical decision making."
Ruth has recently published the first paper to come out of her PhD in a new online journal called Implementation Science. Be warned, it is a theoretical positioning paper so maybe not everyone's cup of tea but nonetheless, congratulations, Ruth!
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