... disorder: A meta-analysis Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2002, 106(3):163-167 Khan A, Leventhal RM, Khan S, Brown WA: Suicide risk in patients with anxiety disorders: A meta-analysis of the FDA database ... fibromyalgia treatment interventions Annals of Behavioral Medicine 1999, 21(2):180-191 Whittal MC, Agras WS, Gould RA: Bulimia nervosa: A metaanalysis of psychosocial and pharmacological treatments ... identify all relevant meta-analyses on fluoxetine as published and reported on Medline or Embase databases Validity assessment The abstract of each reference identified by the search was independently...
... [12,13,18], and evidence from other areas of care suggests providing patients with evidence- based educational materials in clinics may assist providers in justifying evidence- based treatment decisions ... not a thiazide was prescribed), as well asa six-month co-pay reimbursement ($48) if prescribed a thiazide Patients in arm C received the letter and financial incentive, as well asa phone call ... another issue, a distracter issue that the patients want to talk about They don’t frequently want to talk about or mention a chronic asymptomatic disease They have a rash on their elbow and a little...
... [12,13,18], and evidence from other areas of care suggests providing patients with evidence- based educational materials in clinics may assist providers in justifying evidence- based treatment decisions ... not a thiazide was prescribed), as well asa six-month co-pay reimbursement ($48) if prescribed a thiazide Patients in arm C received the letter and financial incentive, as well asa phone call ... another issue, a distracter issue that the patients want to talk about They don’t frequently want to talk about or mention a chronic asymptomatic disease They have a rash on their elbow and a little...
... Esteban A, Alia I, Gordo F, Fernandez R, Solsona JF, Vallverdu I, Macias S, Allegue JM, Blanco J, Carriedo D, Leon M, De la Cal MA, Taboada F, Gonzalez de Velaso J, Palazon E, Carrizosa F, Tomas ... potentially accelerate decision-making with regard to extubation; and to assess the safety and feasibility of our approach Materials and method The intervention was carried out in a 14-bed medical/ surgical ... criticism, and feedback was given on a regular basis Based on the feedback, the protocol was regularly re-evaluated and updated Nurses and RCPs responded favourably to the MDT-driven extubation protocol...
... congenital heart disease, and cardiovascular imaging As registries enter the electronic age, progress in several areas—such as standardization of data elements; clarification of patient privacy rules; ... research Advantages include instant access to a wealth of 24 EVIDENCE- BASEDMEDICINE data; provision of comprehensive and longitudinal data that can span decades; access to massive data sets from ... American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiac Data Registries, and the American Heart Association’s programs The size and scope of these programs are substantial, and although participation...
... Points Hamidreza Mahboobi, Tahereh Khorgoei and Neha Bansal Chapter Innovating Medical Knowledge: Understanding Evidence- BasedMedicineasa Socio- MedicalPhenomenon 11 Maya J Goldenberg Chapter ... Countries Vahideh Zarea Gavgani Chapter Chapter 89 Changing Attitudes in Obstetrics and Gynecology – How EvidenceBasedMedicine is Changing Our Practice? Hesham Al-Inany and Amr Wahba Evidence- Based ... Understanding Evidence- BasedMedicineasa Socio- MedicalPhenomenon Maya J Goldenberg University of Guelph, Canada Introduction Because few would object to evidence- basedmedicine s (EBM) principal task...
... Points Hamidreza Mahboobi, Tahereh Khorgoei and Neha Bansal Chapter Innovating Medical Knowledge: Understanding Evidence- BasedMedicineasa Socio- MedicalPhenomenon 11 Maya J Goldenberg Chapter ... Countries Vahideh Zarea Gavgani Chapter Chapter 89 Changing Attitudes in Obstetrics and Gynecology – How EvidenceBasedMedicine is Changing Our Practice? Hesham Al-Inany and Amr Wahba Evidence- Based ... Understanding Evidence- BasedMedicineasa Socio- MedicalPhenomenon Maya J Goldenberg University of Guelph, Canada Introduction Because few would object to evidence- basedmedicine s (EBM) principal task...
... bibliographic database(s) Database Coverage CINAHL Nursing and allied health, health education, occupational and physiotherapy, social services MEDLINE US database covering all aspects of clinical medicine, ... patients who have had a heart attack, does simvastatin reduce mortality? Patient or problem Intervention Comparison Outcome Heart attack/ myocardial infarction Simvastatin Standard care Mortality Textword ... http://www.bii .a- star.edu.sg/research/mig/cat_ search.asp Evidence- based summaries Evidence- based summaries are reviews of the evidence around a specific clinical topic The findings of studies and systematic...
... significantly augment the risk for cardiovascular disease per se In summary, the article by Hak and Choi contributes a valuable piece of information to the literature about the Page of (page number ... therapy on plasma and urinary levels of uric acid Br Med J 1973, 1:449-451 Sumino H, Ichikawa S, Kanda T, Nakamura T, Sakamaki T: Reduction of serum uric acid by hormone replacement therapy in ... postmenopausal women followed for 21 years [6] In contrast, Simon and colleagues did not find an association between serum urate levels and the risk for coronary heart disease events There was no...
... locally adapted national evidence- based guidelines The functionality of the system was enhanced to provide: automated prompts to patients and primary care clinicians that a review consultation was ... evidence- based guidelines Three Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) (geographically based organisational units that are directly responsible for health care) served by a district hospital -based diabetes ... incorporating a full structured recall and management system, actively involving patients and including individualised patient management prompts to primary care clinicians based on locally-adapted evidence- based...
... counted from each slide, and the percentage of apoptotic and necrotic cells was calculated At least control and treated slides were counted for each treatment Monovariate ANOVA was used to test ... research 2005, 65(20):9463-9472 Yamamoto Y, Murakami K, Inoshima Y, Nakane T, Saika K, Sentsui H: Characterization of a bovine herpesvirus type isolated from the spinal cord of a cow with astasia ... Fondazione Cariparma (Cassa di Risparmio di Parma, Italy) for funding contributions to the project Author details Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, University of Padova, Italy Department of...
... W, Donald A: Evidencebased medicine: an approach to clinical problem-solving BMJ 1995, 310:11221126 Guyatt GH, Rennie D: Users’ guides to the medical literature JAMA 1993, 270:2096-2097 Sackett ... research, part VIII: creating a journal club Laryngoscope 2003, 113:475-483 Sackett DL, Rosenberg WM, Gray JA, Haynes RB, Richardson WS: Evidencebased medicine: what it is and what it isn’t BMJ 1996, ... Critical Care December 2004 Vol No Milbrandt and Vincent previously available only to members of the Department, will now be available in Critical Care online To say that things have changed...
... Critical Care December 2004 Vol No Amanullah and Venkataraman difference in mortality between the groups In patients with severe sepsis there was a trend towards decreased mortality in the albumin ... asa primary endpoint Furthermore, two recent large metaanalyses revealed conflicting results;2,3 one concluded that albumin was associated with increased mortality whereas the other failed to ... critically ill patients: a systematic review of randomized control trials BMJ 1998, 317:235-40 Wilkes MM, Navickis RJ: Patient survival after human albumin administration: a meta- analysis of randomized,...
... first evidence that rFVIIa may also be helpful for patients with ICH This was a well-designed, phase IIb, international, multicenter, randomized placebo-controlled trial that evaluated escalating ... Recombinant Factor VIIa in Acute Intracerebral Haemorrhage In: ClinicalTrials gov [Internet] Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine; 2000[cited 2005 Dec 5] Available from: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00127283 ... pharmacy and therapeutics committees will struggle to balance the potential benefits, harm, and expense of this drug Recommendation Until the results of the phase III trial are available, we cannot...
... such a trial, many would also regard a high quality systematic review and meta-analysis as level I evidence However, systematic reviews require cautious interpretation and may not warrant placement ... number apply across many different situations as can be generated by diseases, trial design and treatment variability? How should the probability of a trial’s given alpha error be adjusted to account ... GRADE system) and some analytical comments dealing with the above fundamental aspects of trial classification will now be discussed The Grades of Recommendation Assessment, Development and Evaluation...
... benefit, as was seen with recombinant human activated protein C [16] CORTICUS patients more commonly had post-surgical, hospitalacquired, and abdominal infections Patients with these characteristics ... shock are not beneficial and may be harmful [2,3] Interest was renewed with the observation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction in patients with septic shock [4-7] When defined as an ... may respond differently to steroid therapy than the primarily medical sample studied by Annane and colleagues Finally, the trials also employed different steroid treatment protocols The Annane...
... using a platform -based approach may lead to a reduced overall performance of platform -based product development (Tatikonda, 1999) In addition, though aspects, such as multibrand platform management ... series, the AA-series (AA1 and AA2) and the AB-series (AB1, AB2, AB3 andAB4) pacemakers, both of which were based on one common hardware platform These pacemakers were very innovative because of ... perspective has been widely accepted and appears in popular management and scholarly journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Harvard Business Review, the Economist and even...