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Evidence-based medicine : how to practice and teach it

Contributor(s): Straus, Sharon E.
Publisher: Edinburgh : Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2011Edition: Fourth edition / Sharon E. Straus [and others].Description: xvii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm + 1 CD-ROM (3 1/4 in.) + 7 cards (10 x 17 cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: computer discISBN: 9780702031274 (pbk.).Subject(s): Evidence-based medicine | Evidence-based medicine -- Methods | Evidence-based medicine -- Study and teaching | Evidence-Based Medicine -- education | Evidence-Based Medicine -- methods | Problem Solving | Teaching -- methodsGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 616
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: 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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Previous edition: Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2005

CD-ROM and cards in pockets attached to inside front and back covers

Includes bibliographical references and 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

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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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