Evidence-Based Medicine

How to Practice and Teach it

By
  • Sharon Straus, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary and University of Toronto
  • Paul Glasziou, MB BS, PhD, FRACGP , Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
  • W. Scott Richardson, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care Systems and University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, TX
  • R. Brian Haynes, MD, Attending Physician, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamiton, Ontario; Chief, Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

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

Students of epidemiology, medical statistics and public health

Paperback, 312 Pages

Published: December 2010

Imprint: Churchill Livingstone

ISBN: 978-0-7020-3127-4

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

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