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Evidence-Based Medicine

How to Practice and Teach It

  • 4th Edition - December 3, 2010
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Sharon E. Straus, Paul Glasziou, W. Scott Richardson, R. Brian Haynes
  • Language: English

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 be… Read more

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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.

Key features

  • New edition of fantastically successful book on evidence-based medicine written by the best-known authorities in the world.

  • Focuses on the major challenge of practicing evidence medicine in real clinical settings, providing tips and tools to help achieve this.

  • Book comes complete with access to both CD-ROM and web site providing appropriate tools to download plus additional content.
  • Set of ready reference cards included in book.

Readership

Hospital-based doctors, general practitioners/primary care physicians/family doctors

Students of epidemiology, medical statistics and public health

Table of 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

Appendix: Glossary

Index

Ready reference cards

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 8, 2010
  • Language: English

About the authors

SS

Sharon E. Straus

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada

PG

Paul Glasziou

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Australia

WR

W. Scott Richardson

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Georgia/Augusta University, USA

RH

R. Brian Haynes

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada