内容紹介
K.K. Snyder admits that while she wasn't born in the South, she got there as quickly as she could and has lived there for the past 25 years. A freelance writer specializing in travel, she writes for a number of publications in the southeast.
From the Back Cover
This handbook provides a concise compilation of the evidence supporting diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules in emergency care. Clinical decision rules are now widely recognised as best practice for the ordering of diagnostic tests in the emergency department.
Aimed at all physicians working with emergency and acute patients, the book begins with an overview of how to evaluate a diagnostic test using an evidence-based approach, followed by an explanation of the clinical decision rules and the methods of assessing the strength and applicability of the clinical prediction rule.
These introductory chapters are followed by sections covering the following clinical areas:
* Traumatic Injuries
* Cardiology
* Infectious Disease
* Surgical and Abdominal Complaints
* Urology
* Neurology
* Ophthalmology, Hematology, Rheumatology
* Pulmonology.
From the Back Cover
This handbook provides a concise compilation of the evidence supporting diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules in emergency care. Clinical decision rules are now widely recognised as best practice for the ordering of diagnostic tests in the emergency department.
Aimed at all physicians working with emergency and acute patients, the book begins with an overview of how to evaluate a diagnostic test using an evidence-based approach, followed by an explanation of the clinical decision rules and the methods of assessing the strength and applicability of the clinical prediction rule.
These introductory chapters are followed by sections covering the following clinical areas:
* Traumatic Injuries
* Cardiology
* Infectious Disease
* Surgical and Abdominal Complaints
* Urology
* Neurology
* Ophthalmology, Hematology, Rheumatology
* Pulmonology.
著者について
Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA and Worth Everett, MD
Both Dr. Pines and Dr. Everett practice emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
They are trained in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, and well versed in evidence-based medicine methodology
