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Foundations of evidence-based medicine : clinical epidemiology and beyond /
This comprehensive text focuses on reasoning, critical thinking and pragmatic decision making in medicine. Based on the author's extensive experience and filled with definitions, formulae, flowcharts and checklists, this fully revised second edition continues to provide invaluable guidance to t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press,
[2020]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; A word from the author; Author; Part 1: How Do We See Things in Medicine: Our trains of thought; 1. How do we see medicine, health and disease? A basic set of rules and fundamental paradigms (including evidence!); Introductory comments; 1.1 The art, craft and science of medicine; 1.1.1 Craft of medicine; 1.1.2 Science of medicine; 1.1.3 Scientific method; 1.2 The goals of medicine and its ensuing strategies: Health protection, disease prevention and health promotion; 1.3 How do we define and understand health and disease?
- 1.3.1 Health1.3.2 Disease; 1.3.3 Syndrome; 1.3.4 Impairment, disability, handicap; 1.4 What is evidence-based medicine (EBM) and what is its place in medicine today?; 1.4.1 Evidence-based medicine defined and its steps; 1.4.2 Evidence-based clinical medicine (EBCM); 1.4.3 Evidence-based community medicine and public health (EBCMPH); 1.4.4 Evidence-based health care (EBHC); 1.4.5 Grading evidence and evaluating the entire EBM process; 1.4.6 Criticism of evidence-based medicine; 1.5 Other 'new' medicines: Contradictory or complementary to EBM?; 1.5.1 Patient-centered medicine
- 1.5.2 Personalized medicine1.5.3 Evidence-based practice; 1.5.4 Lathology; 1.5.5 Interpretive medicine; 1.5.6 Functional medicine; 1.5.7 Stratified medicine; 1.5.8 Precision medicine; 1.6 Conclusions: Understanding the remainder of this book; References; 2. The work of physicians with individuals and communities: Epidemiology and other partners in evidence-based medicine; 2.1 Common logic in dealing with individual patients and communities; 2.2 Patterns of reasoning in practice and research and key ways to decisions; 2.2.1 Key ways to make decisions
- 2.3 Related fields in research and practice2.3.1 Epidemiology; 2.3.2 Clinical epidemiology; 2.3.3 Biostatistics; 2.3.4 Values beyond healing and cure: Health economics; 2.3.5 Qualitative research; 2.3.5.1 Qualitative research in general; 2.3.5.2 Qualitative research in medicine, nursing and public health; 2.3.5.3 Conclusions about qualitative research; 2.3.6 Evidence-based medicine; 2.3.6.1 Historical context of evidence-based medicine; 2.3.6.2 What is 'evidence'?; 2.3.6.3 What is evidence-based medicine?; 2.3.6.4 Grading and evaluating evidence and its uses
- 2.3.6.5 What does the future hold for EBM?2.4 Conclusions: Fulfilling the Hippocratic Oath; References; 3. The logic in modern medicine: Reasoning and underlying concepts; Introductory comments; 3.1 Logic in medicine; 3.2 Logic around us; 3.2.1 Philosophy in medicine is more than ethics: Some definitions of common terms in philosophy; 3.2.2 Definitions of logic; 3.2.3 Some basic elements and principles of logic; 3.2.3.1 Arguments and syllogisms; 3.2.3.2 Deduction and induction in logic and medicine; 3.2.3.3 Abduction; 3.2.3.4 Implications of logic for medicine