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Consumers of maternity services are now in position to support a few challenges of medical practice on the basis of evidence-based medicine. The experience of the Ciane coalition highlights some of the conditions which allow this approach of questioning of practice: first, it has taken advantage of public access to databases of publications (such as PubMed) including their abstracts and possibility to obtain full-text papers; secondly, it brought together a great diversity of competences facilitating reading, making sense of statistics, and translating and analyzing selected publications; third, it created a dedicated database of bibliographical references from which thematic abstracts can be exported. The knowledge of published data is insufficient in itself unless it is completed with a critical appraisal by consumers who have their specific point of view on situations [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The terms included and detailed in the present part are: QUORUM, randomisation, hazards ratio, likelihood ratio, RevMan, risk reduction, relative risk. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]