Evidence-based Medicine

How to Practice and Teach EBM

• Author(s): David L. Sackett,
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Pages: 261
• ISBN_10: 0443062404
  ISBN_13: 9780443062407
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Cardiology , Medical / Education & Training , Medical / Health Care Delivery , Medical / Internal Medicine , Medical / Evidence-Based Medicine ,

Description:... A second edition of the best known introduction to EBM. This is a pocket-sized introduction which tells the reader how to integrate the best available evidence with his or her own clinical expertise, written by world-renowned authorities.

New edition of fantastically successful book on EBM, written by the best-known authorities in the world.

Pocket introduction to a subject about which no modern doctor can afford to be ignorant.

Clear explanation of the central questions of EBM 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.

Now organised along the clinical perspectives of diagnosis, prognosis, therapy and the limitation of harm

New chapters on screening and guidelines

Chapters on evaluation and teaching rewritten and updated.

Now has accompanying CD ROM containing parallel cases from other specialties and other EBM resources.

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