Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM (5th Edition)

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 and teach EBM in real-time.

The online toolkit includes Critical appraisal worksheets, Educational prescription, Pocket Cards, EBM calculators, Educational Prescriptions, Clinical Questions log, Self evaluations.

New to This Edition

• Thoroughly updated with examples from latest evidence/studies.
• Revised electronic ancillaries, now available online
• Expanded coverage of audit and measuring quality improvement.
• Teaching moments now indexed for easy reference.
• New contributing authors Reena Pattani and Areti Angeliki Veroniki

Table of Contents

1.  Introduction
2. Asking answerable clinical questions
3. Acquiring the evidence: How to find current best evidence and have current best evidence find us
4. Appraising the evidence
5. Therapy
6. Diagnosis and screening
7. Prognosis
8. Harm
9. Teaching methods
10. Evaluation
11. Appendix 1: Glossary
12. Appendix 2: Confidence intervals (ebook only)
13. Index

Author Biography

Sharon E. Straus, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada,

Paul Glasziou, MRCGP FRACGP PhD, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Australia,

W. Scott Richardson, MD, Professor of Medicine and Campus Associate Dean for Medical Education, AU/UGA Medical Partnership Campus, Athens, Georgia, USA and

R. Brian Haynes, MD, Professor Emeritus of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada