Decisions/evidence in medical practice

Here is a comprehensive overview of evidence-based medicine and its relevance to clinical decision-making. Emphasising the patient throughout, it covers the basic skills for finding, understanding, and judging medical evidence. This is a timely resource for practitioners dealing with new primary care challenges who want a guide to this emerging discipline.

Introduction and prep school. Sources of evidence. Treatments. Diagnostic testing. Risk. Prognosis. Evidence overviews. Guidelines and pathways. Decision analysis. Studies in evidence-based decision making. Summary of strategies : therapy, diagnosis, risk, prognosis, overviews, guidelines, decision analysis.

Practising Family Physicians, Internists, Paediatricians Medical Students, Medical Schools, Academic/Teaching Physicians