Authors:Stephen H. Halpern, M. Joanne Douglas,
Publisher: BMJ Books
Keywords: evidence, based, medicine, obstetric, anesthesia
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-08-19
List price: $123.95
ISBN-10: 072791734X
ISBN-13: 9780727917348

This is the first text to systematically review the evidence for obstetric anesthesia and analgesia.Evidence-based practice is now being embraced worldwide as a requirement for all clinicians; in the everyday use of anesthesia and analgesia for childbirth, anesthetists will find this synthesis of the best evidence an invaluable resource to inform their practice.Contributions from anesthetic specialists trained in the skills of systematic reviewing provide a comprehensive and practical guide to best practice in normal and caesarean section childbirth.This book, coming from one of the world’s

Authors:Philipp Dahm, Roger Dmochowski,
Publisher: BMJ Books
Keywords: evidence, based, medicine, urology
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2010-07-20
List price: $169.95
ISBN-10: 1405185945
ISBN-13: 9781405185943

This unique book provides up-to-date information on the appropriateness of both medical and surgical treatment options for a broad spectrum of urological conditions based on the current best evidence.  Written by an international team of authors that stand out through their specialty expertise and leadership in practicing evidence-based urology, this book provides practical recommendations for the care of individual patients. Each chapter addresses a series of focused clinical questions that are addressed in a systematic fashion, including a comprehensive literature search, a rating of

Authors:Livia Candelise, Richard Hughes, Alessandro Liberati
Publisher: BMJ Books
Keywords: evidence, based, disorders, medicine, management, neurology, neurological
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-07-02
List price: $134.95
ISBN-10: 0727918117
ISBN-13: 9780727918116

In Evidence-based Neurology: Management of Neurological Disorders a carefully selected group of clinically experienced collaborators use the best available evidence to answer more than 100 clinical questions about the treatment and management of neurological disorders.Divided into three sections and 24 chapters, this book fills the gap between guidelines and primary studies as well as between primary and secondary scientific medical literature summarizes the most recent and important findings on treatments for neurological patients measures the benefit and, when applicable, the risk of harm in

Authors:Jesse M. Pines, Worth W. Everett,
Publisher: BMJ Books
Keywords: evidence, based, decision, medicine, clinical, rules, diagnostic, emergency, care, testing
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $83.95
ISBN-10: 1405154004
ISBN-13: 9781405154000

This useful handbook provides a concise compilation of the evidence supporting diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules in emergency care. Clinical decision rules are now widely recognised as best practice for the ordering of diagnostic tests in the emergency department. Aimed at all physicians working with emergency and acute patients, the book begins with an overview of how to evaluate a diagnostic test using an evidence-based approach, followed by an explanation of the clinical decision rules and the methods of assessing the strength and applicability of the clinical prediction

Author: Michael Schmicker
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: evidence, dowsing, poltergeists, ghosts, mediums, death, phenom, impossible, reincarnation, experiences, healing, mental, three, reporter, investigative, year, quest, esp, scientific, uncover, psychokinesis
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2002-03-27
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0595219063
ISBN-13: 9780595219063

A national Gallup Poll found 93 percent of Americans believe in one or more paranormal phenomena that Science can’t explain and won’t accept. Veteran journalist and business writer Michael Schmicker tracked down the best scientific evidence for these phenomena which refuse to disappear. No National Enquirer nonsense here. Schmicker puzzled over statistics-stuffed psychokinesis studies from Princeton University and reincarnation research from University of Virginia; reviewed over 140 books from the 1894 classic ghost study Phantasms of the Living to a 1999 study of near death and out-of-bo

中文参考译名:循证决策与经济学：医疗保健，社会福利，教育和刑事司法（循证医学）
Authors:Ian Shemilt, Miranda Mugford, Luke Vale, Kevin Marsh,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: evidence, based, criminal, education, justice, medicine, welfare, care, decisions, economics, health, social
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2010-05-03
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1405191538
ISBN-13: 9781405191531

The need for evidence-based decisions that take account of both effectiveness and economics is greater now than ever. Using case studies and illustrative examples throughout the authors describe how the activities and outputs of evidence synthesis, systematic review, economic analysis and decision-making interact within and across different spheres of health and social policy and practice. Expanding on the first edition the book now covers approaches to evidence synthesis that combine economics and systematic review methods in the applied fields of social welfare, education and criminal

Authors:David Bridges, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: evidence, education, policy, philosophy, journal, basis, based
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-06-22
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1405194111
ISBN-13: 9781405194112

This book raises important questions about the extent to which policy can be derived from research and about the kind of evidence which should inform policy. Challenges contemporary orthodoxies and offers constructive alternatives Critiques the narrower conceptions of evidence which might inform policy advanced by the ‘what works’ movement Investigates the logical gaps between what can be shown by research and the wider political requirements of policy Examines the different educational research traditions e.g. large population studies, individual case studies, p