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Evidence-Based Medicine - Statistics & numerical data
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Definition of 'Evidence-Based Medicine'An approach of practicing medicine with the goal to improve and evaluate patient care. It requires the judicious integration of best research evidence with the patient's values to make decisions about medical care. This method is to help physicians make proper diagnosis, devise best testing plan, choose best treatment and methods of disease prevention, as well as develop guidelines for large groups of patients with the same disease. (from JAMA 296 (9), 2006) |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Evidence-based medicine must be ...
16 Aug 2009 
Proponents of evidence-based medicine (EBM) provide the "hierarchy of evidence" as a criterion for judging the reliability of therapeutic decisions. EBM's hierarchy places randomized interventional studies (and systematic reviews of such studies) ... Read more...
Bayesian classification of clinical practice guidelines.
8 Aug 2009 Clinical practice guidelines are generally constructed from an admixture of expert consensus opinion, case-control studies, and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and are categorized according to the methodological quality of the underlying data ... Read more...
6 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The movement towards evidence-based practice makes explicit the need for access to current best evidence to improve health. Advances in electronic technologies have made health information more available, but does availability affect the ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Evidence-Based Medicine - Statistics & numerical data'
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- Evidence-based medicine must be ... 16 Aug 2009
- Building a Bayesian bridge from evidence to guidelines.
8 Aug 2009 - Bayesian classification of clinical practice guidelines. 8 Aug 2009
- Electronic retrieval of health information by healthcare providers to improve practice and patient care. 6 Jul 2009
- A systematic review of interventions for elder abuse. 29 Jun 2009
- Systematic reviews of workplace injury interventions: what are we missing? 29 Jun 2009
- Hot topics in Chinese herbal drugs research documented in PubMed/MEDLINE by authors inside China and outside of China in the past 10 years: based on co-word cluster analysis. 29 Jun 2009
- Practical depression screening in residential care/assisted living: five methods compared with gold standard diagnoses. 29 Jun 2009
- Response to "Results, rhetoric, and randomized trials: the case of donepezil". 29 Jun 2009
- Using data mining techniques to explore physicians' therapeutic decisions when clinical guidelines do not provide recommendations: methods and example for type 2 diabetes.
8 Jun 2009 - Predictors of early discontinuation of evidence-based medicine after acute coronary syndrome. Jun 2009
- Mapping evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents: application of the distillation and matching model to 615 treatments from 322 randomized trials. 30 May 2009
- A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. 30 May 2009
- Health consequences of uninsurance among adults in the United States: recent evidence and implications. 30 May 2009
- [Why are guidelines more irrational than metaanalyses] 17 May 2009
- Civiale, stones and statistics: the dawn of evidence-based medicine. 17 May 2009
- Changing the oil while driving the car. 29 Apr 2009
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): how to interpret the data and what data is required? 29 Apr 2009
- Surgery for low back pain: a review of the evidence for an American Pain Society Clinical Practice Guideline. 29 Apr 2009
- Interventional therapies, surgery, and interdisciplinary rehabilitation for low back pain: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline from the American Pain Society. 29 Apr 2009
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Technical information about 'Evidence-Based Medicine'
Definition: An approach of practicing medicine with the goal to improve and evaluate patient care. It requires the judicious integration of best research evidence with the patient's values to make decisions about medical care. This method is to help physicians make proper diagnosis, devise best testing plan, choose best treatment and methods of disease prevention, as well as develop guidelines for large groups of patients with the same disease. (from JAMA 296 (9), 2006)
Descriptor UI: D019317
Alternative terms: Evidence-Based Medicine; Evidence Based Medicine; Medicine, Evidence-Based; Medicine, Evidence Based;
Related Mesh Headings: Evidence-Based Dentistry; Evidence-Based Nursing;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: H02.249.750; H02.403.200.400;
History Note: 97
Technical Notes: DF: EVIDENCE BASED MED