ABSTRACT

Key Topics in Evidence-based Medicine summarises the issues essential for a clear understanding of the new skills require by all healthcare professionals. The book provides useful information on, how to search for, appraise and implement changes in practice suggested by any new evidence. As well as being of interest to all clinicians, this title wi

chapter |3 pages

NATURAL HISTORY OF DISEASE

chapter |3 pages

DETERMINING CAUSATION

chapter |4 pages

OUTCOME MEASURES

chapter |3 pages

FORMULATING CLINICAL QUESTIONS

chapter |3 pages

HIERARCHY OF EVIDENCE

chapter |4 pages

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

chapter |6 pages

META-ANALYSES

chapter |5 pages

RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS

chapter |5 pages

COHORT STUDIES

chapter |4 pages

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES

chapter |3 pages

CROSS-SECTIONAL (PREVALENCE) SURVEYS

part |2 pages

CASE REPORTS AND CASE SERIES

chapter |5 pages

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

chapter |3 pages

SCREENING

chapter |4 pages

QUESTIONNAIRES

chapter |3 pages

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

chapter |3 pages

SITES OF INTEREST ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

chapter |4 pages

THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION

chapter |3 pages

CRITICAL APPRAISAL

chapter |4 pages

STATISTICAL METHODS (OVERVIEW)

chapter |3 pages

THE P VALUE

chapter |3 pages

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS

part |2 pages

SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY

chapter |4 pages

LIKELIHOOD RATIOS

chapter |3 pages

NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES

chapter |3 pages

STRATIFICATION AND MINIMIZATION

chapter |4 pages

BIAS AND CONFOUNDERS

chapter |3 pages

INTENTION TO TREAT

part |2 pages

THE POWER OF STUDIES

chapter |3 pages

REPRODUCIBILITY

chapter |4 pages

REGRESSION ANALYSIS

part |2 pages

SUBGROUP ANALYSIS

chapter |3 pages

HEALTH STATUS MEASUREMENT

chapter |5 pages

HEALTH ECONOMICS

chapter |3 pages

QALYs

chapter |4 pages

SAMPLING AND APPLICABILITY

chapter |4 pages

AUDIT

chapter |3 pages

GUIDELINES

chapter |3 pages

DECISION ANALYSIS

chapter |3 pages

IMPROVING PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

chapter |3 pages

EXPLAINING RISK TO PATIENTS

part |2 pages

LIMITATIONS OF EBM

chapter |6 pages

THE FUTURE OF EBM