By Carl Heneghan
This bestselling pocket consultant to the abilities of evidence-based drugs succeeds in demystifying the terminology and procedures in a convenient and easy-to-follow layout, all in the area of a hundred pages. With a higher structure, this moment version of Evidence-based drugs Toolkit deals extra updated tips in addition to new sections on very important components of analysis. New positive factors of this moment version include:A field for every significant database displaying the way to seek the proof, and highlighting the diversities among them circulation charts for various examine forms New severe appraisal sections on qualitative examine and financial evaluate elevated record of EBM assets at the net.With those extra gains to make the task more straightforward, the hot Toolkit is now a fair higher better half for all well-being care pros utilizing evidence-based method of their examine and perform.
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Are the results important? Adverse outcome Present (case) Exposure Positive (cohort) Negative (cohort) Absent (control) a b c d In a randomized controlled trial or cohort study: Relative risk = (a / [a + b]) (c / [c + d]) In a case–control study: Odds ratio = Can the results help you? 42 a×d b×c Can you calculate an NNH for your PEER? (See p. ) Appraising articles on harm/aetiology 43 Is the study valid? In assessing an intervention’s potential for harm, we are usually looking at prospective cohort studies or retrospective case–control studies.
Were they recruited at a common point in their illness? • Did the study account for other important factors? • Is the setting representative? 2 Was follow up long enough for the clinical outcome? 3 Was follow up complete? 4 Were outcomes measured ‘blind’? What is the risk of the outcome over time? How precise are the estimates? 96 times the standard error (SE) of a measure. The standard error for a proportion (p) is: SE = √ (p (1 – p) n where p is the proportion and n is the number of subjects.
Longer follow up may be necessary in chronic diseases. 3 Was follow up complete? Most studies will lose some patients to follow up; the question you have to answer is whether so many were lost that the information 48 Evidence-based Medicine Toolkit is of no use to you. You should look carefully in the paper for an account of why patients were lost and consider whether this introduces bias into the result. • If follow up is less than 80% the study’s validity is seriously undermined. You can ask ‘what if’ all those patients who were lost to follow up had the outcome you were interested in, and compare this with the study to see if loss to follow up had a significant effect.