中国医科大学生物医学文献与网络资源留学生课件Section3 Find the evidence for clinicians.pptVIP

* You can access this through SELECTED TOPICS, Evidence based health care. On that page, you can also see the nesbit Guide to Evidence based healthcare, which provides excellent links. You can search National Guideline Clearinghouse using the search box, or browse by organization or condition. It includes: -Structured abstracts (summaries) about the guideline and its development -Links to full-text guidelines, where available, and/or ordering information for print copies -Palm-based PDA Downloads of the Complete NGC Summary for all guidelines represented in the database. -A Guideline Comparison utility that gives users the ability to generate side-by-side comparisons for any combination of two or more guidelines You are also aware of the American Psychiatric Association guidelines. We have access to them now through PsychiatryOnline, on the left sidebar. PsychiatryOnline has the full text of these guidelines, plus more: -DSM-IV and its casebook and also treatment companion -Full text journals: - ·?American Journal of Psychiatry·?Psychiatric Services·?Academic Psychiatry·?Neuropsychiatry Clinical??Neurosciences·?Psychosomatics·?Psychiatric News - textbooks, including APA TEXTBOOK OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY, plus free download of a book every month -self- assessment tools -you can download book sections to your PDA * Systematic reviews are similar to summary products such as PIER and Clinical Evidence, in that they identify, appraise and synthesize relevant research studies but they evaluate a single intervention instead of a full range of management options. For this reason, they may not be as relevant to clinicians. * * Therapy Question - A question concerning the effectiveness of a treatment or preventative measure Prognosis Question - A question concerning outcome of a patient with a particular condition Diagnosis Question - A question concerning the ability of a test to predict the likelihood of a disease Harm Question - question concerning the