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PDQ Evidence-Based Principles and Practice addresses the concepts of evidence based health care in a gentle, non-technical manner. One of its two major purposes is to provide a background to understand health care research and how best to evaluate and apply new research findings in health. The audience is librarians and other information professionals who work with health professionals. Clinicians seeking a gentle approach to working with health research findings will also benefit. In addition the book outlines how best to identify important studies in health care published in the large bibliographic databases such as MEDLINE and the Internet. Readers found the first edition useful in unders...
This book introduces and encourages the concept of evidence-based pati ent care in dermatology. This is a growing area in dermatology, and th is work presents the ideology and methodology of critical thinking and also the available evidence across the field. Evidence-Based Dermatol ogy is aimed at both primary care physicians and dermatologists, encou raging disease management decisions to be based on the highest level o f evidence.
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A fundamental challenge for medical informatics is to develop and apply better ways of understanding how information technologies and methods can help support the best care for every patient every day given available medical knowledge and resources. In order to provide the most effective healthcare possible, the activities of teams of health professionals have to be coordinated through well-designed processes centered on the needs of patients. For information systems to be accepted and used in such an environment, they must balance standardization based on shared medical knowledge with the flexibility required for customization to the individual patient. Developing innovative approaches to d...
Includes proceedings of annual assemblies.
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Introduces sources of medical information, explaining how to locate and understand journal articles, statistics, treatment options, complementary therapies, and clinical trials.
There is some truth in the saying that 'any patient is a potential case report': it is important, however, to know which patient to choose and how to prepare the report to best effect. Until now, the place of clinical case reports in the evidence-based medicine movement has been uncertain, but in this book the author shows the reader- how to choose relevant clinical cases worthy of reporting- how to report these cases in a clear, structured manner- how to prepare clinical case series reports- how to prepare reports that meet the requirements of medical journals- how to prepare reports that make valuable contributions to the chain of evidence in evidence-based medicine. Good clinical reports and case series must link together several elements of clinical epidemiology, clinimetrics, qualitative research principles and methods for gathering information on individual clinical situations. These foundations are explained here in theory and then applied to an annotated practical example. A glossary and bibliography are also included. The result is a significant addition to the literature on evidence-based medicine.