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This concise book presents evidence-based medicine to neophytes in simplified, friendly language. Basic concepts and application of research statistics are presented in simple sequences that are non-threatening even to the mathematically challenged. The authors emphasize two important aspects of appraisal: 1) how directly it provides an answer to the clinical problem at hand and 2) how well results can be generalized to various populations. Painless Evidence-Based Medicine: Offers a simplified approach to the complex or technical subject of evidence-based medicine, in terms of presentation as well as content Is truly designed for the world market place Breaks the subject into succinct chapters, each chapter being a self sufficient introduction to the topic Includes pre-tested ‘tackle boxes’ throughout to help readers understand the issues
Painless Evidence-Based Medicine is an invaluable resource for medical students, clinicians, clinical epidemiology practitioners, and everyone involved in health care.
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| Title of eBook: Painless Evidence-Based Medicine | |
| Release Date: 08-24-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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Painless Evidence-Based Medicine
Chapter One
IntroductionAntonio L. Dans, Leonila F. Dans, Maria Asuncion A. Silvestre
Half of what we learn in medical school is wrong. We just don't know which half.
This statement is often heard by freshmen as they are ushered into medical school, but it probably rings true for students in nursing, dentistry, midwifery, physical therapy and other allied medical professions as well. A lot of truth dwells in these words. Just a few years ago, we thought that enlarged tonsils had to be removed, pregnant mothers had to be shaved before delivery and vitamin C enhanced immunity to respiratory tract infections. These were non-debatable bits of 'knowledge' then. Today, they are nothing more than sombre testimony to the fallibility of the human mind. Our problem is not healthcare education per se. Our problem is progress. Science evolves so fast that what we know now will quickly be outdated if we don't keep up with the literature.
If there was a problem with education in medicine and its allied professions in the last century, it was that professionals were not taught how to keep up with science. We were certainly told that we had to keep up-to-date, but we didn't know how to do this efficiently ... until 1991. In that year, Dr Gordon Guyatt of McMaster University Medical College in Ontario, Canada, described what he believed were important improvements in the way medicine was taught in his university:
Clinicians were formerly taught to look to authority (whether a textbook, an expert lecturer, or a local senior physician) to resolve issues of patient management. Evidence-based medicine us
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