Synopses & Reviews
This is a new edition of a book which has become the classic introduction to EBM. Selling nearly fifty thousand copies in under three years in its English edition, its ideas have had wide appeal to clinicians throughout the world, and it has been translated into several languages.
The new edition is completely revised into a case-based format which explains how effective clinicans ask answerable clinical questions; translate them into effective searches for the best evidence; critically appraise that evidence for its validity and importance; and integrate it with their patients' values and preferences.
The book is now organised along the clinical perspectives of diagnosis, prognosis, therapy and limitation of harm, with new material being added on screening and guidelines and the sections on evaluation and teaching rewritten and updated.
An accompanying CD provides clinical examples from fourteen other disciplines such as critical care medicine, general practice, nursing and physiotherapy, enabling health professionals from a wide variety of disciplines to more easily integrate the book's message into their own clinical practice. The CD also contains information about resources to support evidence-based decisions, as well as the text and illustrations of the book. The resulting package is the ideal introduction to evidence-based practice for any health professional.
Synopsis
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 harmNew chapters on screening and guidelinesChapters on evaluation and teaching rewritten and updated.Now has accompanying CD ROM containing parallel cases from other specialties and other EBM resources.Synopsis
EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE is the bible of EBM. Known as the ultimate authority on the subject, this text was written by the foremost experts in the field. Instead of basing medical decisions on tradition, this resource teaches doctors how to integrate individual clinical expertise with the available external evidence from systematic research to provide patients with the best possible care. Readers will be taught how to ask, translate, critically appraise, and integrate clinical questions. The book is packaged with a FREE CD-ROM containing extended descriptions and sample web pages of several current evidence sources.