... Institute of Medicine (IOM) Entitled Evidence- BasedMedicineand the Changing Nature of Health Care, this meeting was held on October 8, 2007, and focused on the potential of evidence- basedmedicine ... provide at least five evidence services: evidence selection, evidence synthesis, evidence in context, evidence management, andevidence literacy training Collaborative evidence management tools ... medical evidenceand the many new challenges confronting patients and providers to opportunities to transform the speed and reliability of new medical evidenceand enable an evidence- based healthcare...
... and Saag menopausal women are adequate controls for a different group of postmenopausal women These interesting results obtained by Hak and Choi are concordant with those published by Simon and ... gout and cardiovascular disease will need to be tested or confirmed in longer, larger, and prospective studies Studies such as the one presented in the current issue of Arthritis Research and ... true in medicine is seldom straightforward Competing interests ALG declares that they have no competing interests KGS is a consultant for and received research grants from TAP, Savient, and Merck...
... protocol design The regular attendance and high interest in evidence- basedmedicine resulted in rapid development of a protocol and integration of evidence- basedmedicine into our ICU All ICU staff ... protocol -based approach to liberate patients from MV has been demonstrated to be safe in randomized controlled trials [6,7] and because the goal of this intervention was to implement an evidence- based ... Discussion Pulmonary haemorrhage (2.1) The aim of evidence- basedmedicine is to integrate current best evidence from research into clinical policy and practice However, this does not necessarily...
... Evidencebased ethics? On evidence- based practice and the empirical turn from normative bioethics BMC Medical Ethics, Vol 6:11, (November 2005), 1472-6939 Goldenberg, M J (2006) On evidenceand ... standard? Biosocieties, Vol 2, No 1, (March 2007), pp 11-20, 1745-8552 Centre for Evidence- BasedMedicine (2006) Levels of evidenceand grades of recommendation In: Centre for Evidence- Based Medicine, ... trials, and they have become the underlying basis for what is currently called evidence- basedmedicineEvidenceBasedMedicine – Closer to Patients or Scientists? Evidence supporting randomised...
... Research Needs and Priorities In: J Gittlesohn, M.E Bentley, P.J Pelto, M Nag, S Pachauri, A.D Harrison, and L.T Landman, (eds.) Listening to Women Talk about their Health IssuesandEvidence from ... such as vasectomy and condoms, there has not been a discourse around issues of male responsibility and there is little mention of these issues in government documents On the other hand, there is ... problem and draws attention to the serious gulf between rhetoric and reality The author examines the problem within the country's political and socio-cultural context and analyses the impeding and...
... Evidencebased ethics? On evidence- based practice and the empirical turn from normative bioethics BMC Medical Ethics, Vol 6:11, (November 2005), 1472-6939 Goldenberg, M J (2006) On evidenceand ... standard? Biosocieties, Vol 2, No 1, (March 2007), pp 11-20, 1745-8552 Centre for Evidence- BasedMedicine (2006) Levels of evidenceand grades of recommendation In: Centre for Evidence- Based Medicine, ... trials, and they have become the underlying basis for what is currently called evidence- basedmedicineEvidenceBasedMedicine – Closer to Patients or Scientists? Evidence supporting randomised...
... Evidence- basedMedicine Toolkit SECOND EDITION Evidence- basedMedicine Toolkit SECOND EDITION Carl Heneghan Centre for Evidence- basedMedicine Department of Primary ... Applying the evidence, 71 Evidence- based medicine: glossary of terms, 79 Selected evidence- based healthcare resources on the web, 86 Levels of evidence, 94 Study designs, 97 Index, 101 This handbook ... Richardson WS Evidencebased medicine: what it is and what it isn’t Br Med J 1996;312:71– Sackett DL, Straus SE, Richardson WS, Rosenberg WMC, Haynes RB Evidence- Based Medicine: How to practice and teach...
... original review approach based on scientific evidence seems the most appropriate to appreciate and understand the main clinical characteristics of fluoxetine Methods Searching and selection of studies ... effective as, and has a distinctly more benign sideeffect profile and lower rates of discontinuation than the TCAs, is safer in overdose and easier and simpler for patients to use and physicians ... from US IND double blind, randomized controlled clinical trials Time of onset of antidepressant action and patient's discontinuation rates Least squares means and standard error for the description...
... concert [12,13,18], andevidence from other areas of care suggests providing patients with evidence- based educational materials in clinics may assist providers in justifying evidence- based treatment ... are under-utilized, and identification and appropriate treatment of patients with hypertension remains inadequate [4-8] This ‘quality gap’ between evidence- based guidelines and clinical management ... or might be modifiable? Replication and future adaptation require an understanding of these factors and their context and consistency within the intervention, and failure to detect differences...
... concert [12,13,18], andevidence from other areas of care suggests providing patients with evidence- based educational materials in clinics may assist providers in justifying evidence- based treatment ... are under-utilized, and identification and appropriate treatment of patients with hypertension remains inadequate [4-8] This ‘quality gap’ between evidence- based guidelines and clinical management ... or might be modifiable? Replication and future adaptation require an understanding of these factors and their context and consistency within the intervention, and failure to detect differences...
... GIS and Evidence- Based Policy Making Edited by Stephen Wise and Max Craglia Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time Edited by Jane Drummond, Roland Billen, Elsa João, and ... of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Robin Flowerdew School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom ß 2007 by Taylor ... registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data GIS and evidence- based policy making /...
... (crime events) has been shown to be nonrandom (Eck and Weisburd, 1995), and attention has focused on analyzing when and where these crime events occur and the environmental factors that may help ... (SuperProfile lifestyles, selected census variables, % open space and % built areas, the ILC decile, and selected recorded crime and command -and- control data) The GIS program used was ArcView v3.1 This ... concentrated at particular stops and areas Hot spot analysis, RTTs, and GIS have been used to identify and target these ‘‘high risk’’ stops and areas There is evidence to suggest that particular...
... is based on data provided with the support of the ESRC and JISC and uses boundary material which is copyright of the Crown and the ED-Line Consortium References Anderson, D., Chenery, S., and ... repeat victimization identification A stand-alone package; data handling and chart reporting functions Database; geo-coding and reporting functions Well-suited stand-alone software; set of spatial ... CrimeStat), and MapObject (RCAGIS and Community Policing Beating Book, and MaxResponder) As an alternative, crimeoriented stand-alone mapping software has been developed such as PROphecy and CrimeWatch...
... for flood and coastal defense in England and administers the legislation that enables work to be carried out The Flood and Coastal Defence Programme is aimed at reducing risk to people and the ... reducing risk to people and the developed and natural land by financially supporting, advising, and guiding flood and coastal defense operating authorities, and funding research programs Following ... planning and emergency considerations: It is the role of the police to organize localized planning and response on behalf of LA and EA guidelines Once alerted to the onset of a flood event a commandand-control...
... work is based on data provided with the support of the ESRC and JISC and uses boundary material which is copyright of the Crown and the ED-Line consortium Re fer enc es Alexander, F.E and Cuzick, ... statistic (Kulldorff, 1999), Knox’s test (Knox, 1989), and Besag and Newell’s method (Besag and Newell, 1991) Issues related to clustering and cluster detection are discussed in detail in recent ... region and an inner-city area of Sheffield (striped areas signify missing data) (From 1991 Census: Digitised Boundary Data (England and Wales); 1991 Census: Small Area Statistics (England and Wales).)...
... of planning constraint and also increases with the price of land (vi) That the demand for housing land is derived by reference to the demand for housing units and the demand for housing space ... supply of urban land for housing is a function of the stock of urban land and increases with the price of land (v) That the supply of rural land is a function of the stock of land free of planning ... 41) 9.1.1 Policy, Evidence, and GIS In the opening years of the twenty-first century, planning policy in England and Wales was clearly directed to conserving undeveloped land and to the intensification...
... milestone, and also added the equally vital issues of integrating an information system and sustaining its upkeep The issue of accessibility was based on the slow process involved in monitoring and ... Management and Sustainability Sustainability and the integration of policy and action are key aims underpinning much of EU legislation and policy The conservation of architectural heritage and of ... and natural habitats the EU proposes standardization and sharing of data (through the EU Habitats Directive 92=43=EEC) The European Union and the Council of Europe provide the best guidance and...
... A.A., and Sunnenberg, G., 2001, A classification of local authority waste collection and recycling strategies in England and Wales Resources, Conservation and Recycling 32, 239–257 Perrin, D and ... 2003) Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and National Assembly for Wales, 2000, Waste Strategy 2000 for England and Wales Parts and (London: The Stationary Office) ß 2007 by ... Food and Rural Affairs, 2001, A Consultation Document on the Distribution of the £140 Million Waste Minimisation and Recycling Fund in England (London: Department for Environment, Food and Rural...