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To the Editor. Regarding Dr Bauchner's comments in an article published in your journal,1 I was struck by the author's concern that evidence-based medicine (EBM) “may be distracting from the important goal of finding ways to change physician behavior.” Dr Bauchner discussed in a nice overview the rigors of the statistical methods incorporated in the ...
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Publisher Summary This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of evidence-based medicine (EBM). The top five levels of evidence that are usually considered in EBM consist of study designs that provide systematic clinical observation and that are borrowed from the scientific methods of epidemiology.
H, Karunatilake, A S V, Mendis
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A 59-year-old man presents to your office with a 4 week history of intermittent substernal chest discomfort with exertion, without radiation and relieved by rest. Each of several episodes lasted no more than 5 minutes. He has been in good general health, had no history of prior chest pain, hypertension, diabetes, or serious illness.
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Evidence based medicine is the practice of solving the clinical problems in one's practice by judicious and systematic use of the medical literature. This includes framing questions rightly and searching the right kind of literature. Thereafter, the available evidence needs to be evaluated for the validity, strength and effect size.
Shah, Dheeraj, Sachdev, HPS
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Effective UK weight management services for adults [PDF]
A number of evidence-based weight management interventions are now available with different models, and serving different patient/client groups. While positive outcomes are key to the decision making process, so too is the information around how these ...
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Duncan Neuhauser, Mireya Diaz and Iain Chalmers (JRSM 2008;101:381–383) are puzzled that one of the great pioneers of clinical trials, Russell LaFayette Cecil, failed to include a chapter on trial methodology when he went on to edit his best-selling Textbook of Medicine – but perhaps they are being diplomatic.1 If Cecil thought most doctors did not ...
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Utilization of traditional Chinese medicine in the intensive care unit
Previous studies showed that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) may be effective for patients with critical conditions. However, the extent to which TCM is used in intensive care units (ICUs) remains less investigated. This study aimed to investigate the
Xia Zhang +4 more
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Evidence-based medicine and values-based medicine : partners in clinical education as well as in clinical practice [PDF]
The best clinical decisions are based on both evidence and values in what is known as the ‘twofeet principle’. Anecdotally, educationalists find teaching clinicians to become more evidence based is relatively simple in comparison to encouraging them to ...
DL Sackett +8 more
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The objective of this study was to evaluate association between body mass index (BMI) and prostate volume (PV), international prostate symptom scores (IPSS), maximum urinary flow rate ( Q max ), and post-void residual (PVR) of Chinese benign prostatic ...
Bing-Hui Li +5 more
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Periodontal disease and risk of benign prostate hyperplasia: a cross-sectional study
Background Both periodontal disease and benign prostatic hyperplasia are age-related diseases that affect millions of people worldwide. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the association between periodontal disease and the risk of benign prostatic ...
Lan Wu +8 more
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