Evidence-based medicine and clinical practice

Author: Wang Jiyao
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: This book introduces the concept and methods of evidence-based medicine, the principles and steps of its practice, and how to obtain useful evidence. It discusses how to apply evidence-based medicine in clinical practice and medical education from aspects such as diagnosis, treatment, prevention, prognosis, adverse reactions, economic analysis, quality of life, decision analysis, evaluation of health technologies, and medical quality. This book is a specialized work on evidence-based medicine and clinical practice. It is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on introducing the concept and methods of evidence-based medicine, as well as the principles and steps of its implementation. The second part explains how to obtain useful evidence, including specific methods of literature retrieval, various statistical methods, steps, and examples of systematic reviews in Meta-analysis. The third part discusses how to apply evidence-based medicine in clinical practice and medical education from aspects such as diagnosis, treatment, prevention, prognosis, adverse reactions, economic analysis, quality of life, decision analysis, evaluation of health technologies, and medical quality. The fourth part introduces readers to examples of how specialists apply the principles of evidence-based medicine to solve clinical problems in practice from a disease perspective. This book is rich in content, up-to-date in information, and strong in both scientific rigor and practicality. It is suitable for clinical doctors, graduate students, clinical epidemiologists, medical journal editors, and medical college students as a reference.