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.
Margolis, Stephen A
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The Buzz Surrounding Precision Medicine: The Imperative of Incorporating It into Evidence-Based Medical Practice [PDF]
Precision medicine (PM), through the integration of omics and environmental data, aims to provide a more precise prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Currently, PM is one of the emerging approaches in modern healthcare and public health, with
Taulant Muka +2 more
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Ten years later: a review of the US 2009 institute of medicine report on conflicts of interest and solutions for further reform [PDF]
Conflicts of interest (COIs) in healthcare are increasingly discussed in the literature, yet these relationships continue to influence healthcare. Research has consistently shown that financial COIs shape prescribing practices, medical education and ...
Gill, Jennifer +23 more
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Attitude, Skills and Barriers in Practice of Evidence Based Medicine [PDF]
Patient load, lack of time and treatment incentives are the major problems faced by healthcare professionals of being outdated and compromising quality of healthcare. Evidence based medicine has an enormous role to play in improving the present situation.
Khan, S +6 more
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Integrating evidence-based medicine skills into a medical school curriculum: a quantitative outcomes assessment [PDF]
Objectives: This research project aims to determine the potential differential impact of two curricular approaches to teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) on student performance on an EBM assignment administered during the first year of clerkship.
Menard, Laura M. +3 more
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Comparison of Computed Tomography Findings and Surgical Outcome Between French Bulldogs and Non-Brachycephalic Dogs with Cervical Intervertebral Disc Herniation [PDF]
Objectives: The aim of this retrospective case study was to compare incidence, signalment, history, computed tomography (CT) findings and surgical outcomes between French Bulldogs (FB) and non-brachycephalic dogs (NB) surgically treated for cervical ...
FAH Evidence based Veterinary Medicine +6 more
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An electronic thesaurus of Evidence Based Laboratory Medicine hematological and biochemical diagnostic tests [PDF]
The adoption of Evidence Based Laboratory Medicine (EBLM) has been hampered until today by the lack of effective tools. The SIMeL EBLM e-Thesaurus (on-line Repertoire of the diagnostic effectiveness of the laboratory, radiology and cardiology test ...
Bisoffi Z +8 more
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Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis? [PDF]
Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues argue that, although evidence based medicine has had many benefits, it has also had some negative unintended consequences.
Greenhalgh, T +7 more
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Safety and efficiency of stem cell therapy for COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Background With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing, various treatments have become widely practiced. Stem cells have a wide range of applications in the treatment of lung diseases and have therefore been experimentally used to treat patients with COVID-19,
Minghe Zhang +10 more
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Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine? [PDF]
Focuses on the controversy over the validity of evidence-based medicine (EBM). Proposal for a hierarchy of evidence according to which randomized controlled trials (RCT) and meta-analyses of RCT provide the most reliable evidence concerning the ...
Borgerson, Kirstin
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