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Translational research and clinical practice : basic tools for medical decision making and self-learning / Stephen C. Aronoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aronoff, Stephen C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evidence-based medicine.
- Medicine--Decision making.
- Medicine.
- Clinical trials.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Translational Research and Clinical Practice offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to evidence-based medicine. The use of medical literature has always been an integral tool for patient care, yet recently the modern processes of question formulation, literature search, and study evaluation have changed with the advent of the internet and technology. The physician must be able to find empirical evidence from the appropriate study using a searchable question and then determine its impact on patient care. The book provides the general framework for such medical decision making; it covers
- Contents:
- Developing a clinical question and searching the medical literature
- The anatomy of a clinical study
- Designs of clinical studies
- Lies, more lies, and statistics (with apologies to Mark Twain)
- Answering a question regarding the treatment of a disease
- Answering a question regarding the utility of a diagnostic test
- Answering a question regarding prognosis and risk factors
- Answering a question using a clinical prediction rule
- Answering a question about etiology or differential diagnosis
- Using medical evidence to answer a question regarding clinical presentation
- Using meta-analyses to answer a question of diagnosis and therapy
- Answering a question regarding causation
- Clinical guidelines : prepackaged medical decision making
- Putting it all together
- Developing a plan for lifelong education
- Teaching medical decision making.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-23217-0
- 9786613232175
- 0-19-978082-X
- OCLC:
- 746747082
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