Emergency Medicine Decision Making: Critical Issues in Chaotic Environments

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Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine, a highly readable primer, will be the first book to teach EBM principles and their clinical application with the unique mindset and needs of the Emergency Medicine physician in mind

>This one-of-a-kind guide discusses the search, evaluation, and proper use of the literature of emergency medicine, from textbooks to trials and qualitative studies to systematic reviews. It reveals how and where to find the quality information needed when seconds count. Fully exploring medical decision making using cognitive psychology, Bayesian analysis and more, it shows how to apply the knowledge they provide to achieve superior diagnosis and management of ED patients. The avoidance of medical errors is emphasized through the precepts of critical thinking and heuristics.

List of contents

Understanding the BasicsMedical Statistics

1.Probability

2.P values

3.Confidence Intervals

Key Concepts

4.Sensitivity and Specificity

5.Predictive Values

6.Likelihood Ratios

7.The Risks of Relativity

8.Number Needed to Treat

9.Bias

10.Spectrum Calculations

11.Confounders

The Literature of Emergency Medicine

12.The problems of the body of "Emergency Medicine Literature"

13.The application of Emergency Medicine literature to Continuous Certification

Types of Literature

14.Textbooks

15.Retrospective Trials

16.Prospective Trials

17.Meta-Analyses

18.Integrative Studies

19.Qualitative Studies

Evaluating an Article

20.Internal Validity

21.External Validity

Finding Information When Seconds Count

22.Searching Medline

23.Using the Internet

24.Personal Databases

25.Other Sources

Medical Decision Making in the ED

26.Action and Testing Thresholds

27.Disease Likelihood and Bayesian Analysis

28.Weighing Treatment Benefits and Harm

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Product details

• Authors: Weingart Scott, Wyer Peter
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2006
• EAN: 9780071442121
• ISBN: 978-0-07-144212-1
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, Accident & emergency medicine, Accident and emergency medicine