Section I
How do we See Things in Medicine
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Book title: Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine.
Contributors: Milos Jenicek - Author.
Publisher: Parthenon Publishing.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2002.
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- A Word from the Author xiii
- Section I - How Do We See Things in Medicine 1
- Chapter 1 - How Do We See Medicine, Health and Disease? a Basic Set of Rules and Fundamental Paradigms 3
- Chapter 2 - The Work of Physicians with Individuals and Communities. Epidemiology and Other Partners in Evidence-Based Medicine 15
- Chapter 3 - The Logic of Modern Medicine. Reasoning and Underlying Concepts 45
- Chapter 4 - Producing Evidence. Classification, Objectives and Worthiness of Medical Research 69
- Chapter 5 - Assessing the Health of Individuals and Communities. Health Indicators, Indexes, and Scales 81
- Chapter 6 - Identifying Cases of Disease. Clinimetrics and Diagnosis 107
- Chapter 7 - Describing What Happens. Clinical Case Reports, Case Series, Occurrence Studies 147
- Chapter 8 - Search for Causes of Disease Occurrence. Why Does Disease Occur? 183
- Chapter 9 - The Impact of Treatment and Other Clinical and Community Health Interventions.A'Does It Work?' Evaluation 229
- Chapter 10 - Prognosis. Studies of Disease Course and Outcomes 269
- Chapter 11 - Analyzing and Integrating a Body of Knowledge. Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis of Evidence 297
- Chapter 12 - Using Evidence and Logic in Everyday Clinical Reasoning, Communication, and Legal and Scientific Argumentation 327
- Chapter 13 - Decision Analysis and Decision-Making in Medicine. Beyond Intuition, Guts, and Flair 341
- Index 385
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