Evidence-Based Medicine, 4th Edition

By Sharon E. Straus, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary and University of Toronto; Paul Glasziou, MRCGP, FRACGP, PhD, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford, UK; 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 and R. Brian Haynes, MD, Attending Physician, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamiton, Ontario; Chief, Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

Description:
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.

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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

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