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Evidence-based medicine : how to practice and teach it / Sharon E. Straus, Paul Glasziou, W. Scott Richardson and R. Brian Haynes

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburg, New York : Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, c2011Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xvii, 293 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780702031274
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • R 723.7 .S77 2011
Contents:
Asking answerable clinical questions Acquiring the evidence: how to find current best evidence and have current best evidence find us Appraising the evidence Therapy Diagnosis and screening Prognosis Harm Evaluation Teaching EBM
Summary: Evidence Based Medicine provides a clear explanation of the central questions: how to ask answerable clinical questions; how to translate them into effective searches for the best evidence; how to critically appraise that evidence for its validity and importance; and how to integrate it with patients' values and preferences. Constitutes a traditional way of presenting ideas about EBM. It explains how to ask answerable clinical questions, translate them into effective searches for the best evidence, critically appraise that evidence for its validity and importance, integrate it with patients' values and preferences, assess the practice of EBM. Additional materials, including resources for practicing EBM can be downloaded to PDAs, contain clinical examples, critical appraisals and background papers from other healthcare disciplines such as nursing and occupational therapy with links to various evidence resources. A supporting website for this book also provides updates and new materials
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Includes index.

Asking answerable clinical questions Acquiring the evidence: how to find current best evidence and have current best evidence find us Appraising the evidence Therapy Diagnosis and screening Prognosis Harm Evaluation Teaching EBM

Evidence Based Medicine provides a clear explanation of the central questions: how to ask answerable clinical questions; how to translate them into effective searches for the best evidence; how to critically appraise that evidence for its validity and importance; and how to integrate it with patients' values and preferences. Constitutes a traditional way of presenting ideas about EBM. It explains how to ask answerable clinical questions, translate them into effective searches for the best evidence, critically appraise that evidence for its validity and importance, integrate it with patients' values and preferences, assess the practice of EBM. Additional materials, including resources for practicing EBM can be downloaded to PDAs, contain clinical examples, critical appraisals and background papers from other healthcare disciplines such as nursing and occupational therapy with links to various evidence resources. A supporting website for this book also provides updates and new materials

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