Tag: Evidence-Based Medicine

The revised fourth edition of Evidence-Based Gastroenterology and Hepatology continues to provide the most current, evidence-based information for determining the appropriate medical and surgical options for screening for, diagnosing, and treating gastrointestinal conditions. With contributions from an international team of leading experts in the field, the 4th edition includes practical recommendations for the care of individual patients based on the latest scientific evidence.

Aimed at practicing obstetricians, gynecologists, and trainees in the specialty, Evidence-based Obstetrics and Gynecology concentrates on the clinical practice areas of diagnosis, investigation and management. The first section of the book discusses evidence-based medicine methodology in the context of the two specialties. The second and third sections cover all the major conditions in obstetrics and gynecology, with each chapter reviewing the best available evidence for management of the particular condition. The chapters are structured in line with EBM methodology, meaning the cases generate the relevant clinical questions.

  Basic Information: Year: 2017 Page Number: 285 File Type: PDF File Size: 2.74 MB Authors/ Editiors: Debus, E. Sebastian, Grundmann, Reinhart T. Description: This book is an introduction to quality initiative for vascular surgery and medicine. Originally published in German, the book is written by leading experts who utilise their professional expertise and insight to help raise the level of patient safety, quality of care, and training of junior vascular physicians. This books aims to bring together the best available current treatment...

  Basic Information: Year: 2017 Page Number: 736 File Type: PDF File Size: 8.84 MB Authors/ Editiors: Steven McGee Description: Fully updated from cover to cover, incorporating over 200 new studies on the evidence-based approach to diagnosis, the 4th Edition of Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis remains your go-to resource for guidance on interpreting physical signs, enabling you to determine the most appropriate physical finding to confirm a diagnosis. Internationally renowned author Dr. Steven McGee puts the most current evidence at your fingertips, allowing...

  Basic Information: Year: 2011 Page Number: 236 File Type: PDF File Size: 10.27 MB Authors/ Editiors: Jan Van Zundert Description: Chronic pain has been subject to multiple internationalinitiatives through the World Health Organization. InterventionalPain Medicine, use of minimally invasive techniques to relievepain, is the best approach when simpler measures such as physicaltherapy or medications fail. However, these procedures can beassociated with significant risk and expense. Establishinguniformity in diagnostic criteria and procedural performance canreduce both morbidity and unnecessary procedures, and hencehealthcare expenditures. While...

  Basic Information: Year: 2015 Page Number: 835 File Type: PDF File Size: 8.54 MB Authors/ Editiors: Marik, Paul Ellis Description: This is the premier evidence-based textbook in critical care medicine. The Third Edition features updated and revised chapters, numerous new references, streamlined content, and new chapters on key topics such as the new paradigm in critical care medicine, cardiac output monitoring, surgical optimization, vital signs, and arterial blood gas analysis. The book maintains the author’s trademark humor and engaging writing style...

  Basic Information: Year: 2017 Page Number: 214 File Type: PDF File Size: 16.50 MB Authors/ Editiors: Swanson, Eric Description: Insisting on an evidence-based approach, Dr. Swanson brings the light of science to bear on the many controversies in cosmetic breast surgery today. Conventional wisdom is challenged with factual analysis, made possible by Dr. Swanson’s large body of published research. In his hallmark detailed style, the author lays the foundation with clinical studies, measurements, and patient-reported outcomes. The work is all here...

  Basic Information: Year: 2014 Page Number: 680 File Type: PDF File Size: 22.88 MB Authors/ Editiors: Hywel Williams Description: Evidence-based Dermatology, Third Edition takes a unique approach to clinical dermatology by emphasising use of only the highest quality available evidence when treating people with skin diseases. Beginning with a toolbox introduction to the practice of evidence-based dermatology, it then covers the application of evidence for dermatological treatments across a wide range of ailments, including: World-leading experts in dermatology follow a clinical approach for...

  Basic Information: Year: 2018 Page Number: 252 File Type: PDF File Size: 13.11 MB Authors/ Editiors: Paul D. Dayton Description: This unique book provides a critical examination of the current traditions and techniques commonly taught regarding hallux valgus correction and contrasts them with new, evidence-based anatomic and surgical concepts that change the entire approach to bunion surgery. Beginning with the history, etiology and epidemiology of the deformity, its clinical implications and physical and radiological assessment are then discussed. An overview of...

  Basic Information: Year: 2016 Page Number: 688 File Type: PDF File Size: 10.15 MB Authors/ Editiors: Clifford S. Deutschman MS MD FCCM Description: Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care, 2nd Edition, presents objective data and expert guidance on managing critically ill patients in unique question-based chapters that focus on best practices. Now thoroughly updated by Drs. Clifford S. Deutschman, Patrick J. Neligan, and nearly 200 critical-care experts, this highly regarded title remains the only book of its kind that provides a comprehensive...

  Basic Information: Year: 2009 Page Number: 240 File Type: PDF File Size: 0.86 MB Authors/ Editiors: John E. Snyder Description: In the modern practice of medicine, new challenges complicate the ethical care of patients. Today’s times require a contemporary take on the concept of medical ethics. The idea for this textbook was born out of a need for a teaching resource that merges medical ethics theory with the practical needs of modern clinical medicine. In Evidence-Based Medical Ethics: Cases for Practice-Based...

  Basic Information: Year: 2018 Page Number: 336 File Type: PDF File Size: 3.85 MB Authors/ Editiors: Sharon Straus Paul Glasziou W. Scott Richardson R. Brian Haynes Description: Now in its fifth edition, this classic introduction to the practice and teaching of evidence-based medicine is written for busy clinicians at any stage of their career who want to learn how to practise and teach evidence-based medicine (EBM). It is short and practical, emphasizing direct clinical application of EBM and tactics to practise...

  Basic Information: Year: 2005 Page Number: 640 File Type: PDF File Size: 3.21 MB Authors/ Editiors: John W. D. McDonald Description: Traditional textbooks in this field have emphasized the basic sciences of pathology, biochemistry and physiology. Evidence-based Gastroenterology and Hepatology covers all the major diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver, utilizing clinical epidemiology to present the strongest and most current evidence for interventions. This second edition is edited and written by leading gastroenterologists from around the world, each chapter summarizes the...