Evidence-based medicine : how to practice and teach EBM / Sharon E. Straus, Paul Glasziou, W. Scott Richardson, R. Brian Haynes
Publisher: Edinburgh : Elsevier , ©2019Edition: 5th editionDescription: xii, 324 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0702062960
- 9780702062964
- R723.7 .E954 2019
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Previous edition: Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2011
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 evidence-based medicine
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