Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
- Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
- •Introduction
- •Five Steps of Evidence-Based Health Care
- •Criticisms
- •Communication and Research
- •History of Scientific Communication
- •Oral Tradition
- •Letters
- •Handwritten Books
- • Printing Press and Books
- •Guild System and Journals
- •Printed Indexes
- •Computer Databases
- •The Internet
- •Publishing Wedge
- • Information Needs of Researchers and Clinicians
- • Resources For Clinical Studies
- •Textbooks
- • Journals
- • A Personal Collection
- •Large Bibliographic Searching Systems (such as MEDLINE)
- • The Internet
- •Summary
- •Content Searching Versus Methodology Searching
- •Clinical Research
- •References
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- • Therapy, Prevention and Control, and Quality Improvement
- •Clinical Example of Music and Bronchoscopy
- •How a Therapy Trial Is Done
- •Randomization
- •Blinding
- •Follow-up
- •Understanding Therapy Statistics
- • MEDLINE
- •CINAHL Database of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- •PsycINFO
- •Embase/Excerpta Medica
- •MEDLINE Hedges
- • Assignment
- •References
- • Diagnosis and Screening
- •Classical Example: Fast, Accurate Diagnosis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
- •How a Diagnosis Study Is Done
- •2 X 2 Table
- •Definitions
- •Positive Predictive Value and Negative P redictive Value
- •Likelihood Ratio
- •False Positive Ratio and False Negative Ratio
- •Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves
- •Understanding Diagnostic Statistics
- •Summary
- •MEDLINE
- •CINAHL Database of Learning and Allied Health Literature
- •PsycINFO
- •Embase/Excerpta Medica
- •MEDLINE Hedges
- • Assignment
- •References
- •Etiology, Causation and Harm
- • Four Methodologies For Evaluating Etiology
- •Issues
- •How Results of Etiology Studies Are Reported
- •Summary
- •MEDLINE
- •CINAHL Database of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- •PsycINFO
- •Embase/Excerpta Medica
- •MEDLINE Hedges
- •Assignment
- •References
- • Natural History and Prognosis
- •Clinical Example: Grief After Miscarriage
- •How Natural History and Prognosis Studies Are Done
- •Natural History Versus Prognosis
- •Inception Cohort Studies
- •Calculations
- •Summary
- •MEDLINE
- •CINAHL Database of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- •PsycINFO
- •Embase/Excerpta Medica
- •MEDLINE Hedges
- •Assignment
- •References
- •Secondary Publications: Systematic Review Articles
- • Systematic Review Articles and Meta-Analyses
- •Summary
- •MEDLINE
- •CINAHL Database of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- •PsycINFO
- •Embase/Excerpta Medica
- •MEDLINE Hedges
- •Comprehensive Search Strategies For Systematic Reviews: Short Version
- •COMPREHENSIVE SEARCH STRATEGIES FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS: LONG VERSION
- •Examples
- •Assignment
- •Further Reading
- •Cochrane Collaboration
- • Cochrane Library
- •Geographic Sites
- •Searching The Library
- •References
- • Secondary Publications: Clinical Practice Guidelines
- • Clinical Example
- •Evidence-Based Practice Centers
- •Alternative Names
- •Structured Abstract For Clinical Practice Guidelines
- •Retrieval
- •MEDLINE
- •CINAHL Database of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- •PsycINFO
- • Embase/Excerpta Medica
- •Examples
- •Assignment
- •References
- • Secondary Publications: Economic Analyses
- • Economic Analysis Designs
- •Types of Economic Analyses
- •Types of Costs
- •The Perspective of an Economic Analysis
- •Testing The Assumptions of an Economic Analyses
- •Summary
- •MEDLINE
- •CINAHL Database of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- •PsycINFO
- •Embase/Excerpta Medica
- •MEDLINE Hedges
- •Examples
- •References
- •References
- •Qualitative Studies
- • Clinical Example
- •How a Qualitative Study Is Done
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- •Types of Qualitative Studies
- •Summary
- •Searching For Qualitative Studies
- •CINAHL Databse of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- •MEDLINE
- • PsycINFO
- •Embase/Excerpta Medica
- •Examples
- •Assignment
- •References
- •Appendix
- • Further Reading
- •Annals of Internal Medicine Series on Systematic Reviews
- •Evidence-Based Health Care Internet Resources
- •Tips For Online Database Comprehensive Searching
- •Index