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Autore |
Langhorne Peter |
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Titolo |
Stroke units [[electronic resource] ] : an evidence based approach / / Peter Langhorne, Martin Dennis |
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London, : BMJ Books, 1998 |
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1-281-32172-9 |
9786611321727 |
0-470-76021-4 |
0-470-75994-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (130 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cerebrovascular disease |
Cerebral ischemia |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-107) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Stroke Units: An evidence based approach; Contents; Authorship; Contributors; Foreword by Iain Chalmers; Preface; 1 The stroke unit story; History of stroke unit care and its evaluation; Early studies; Definitions of a stroke unit; Stroke intensive care units; Later developments; The demands of evidence based practice; 2 How should we evaluate our interventions?; Levels of evidence; Sources of error; Systematic error (bias); Random error; Design of a reliable stroke unit trial; Why randomised trials may not be enough; Systematic reviews of randomised trials; Conduct of systematic reviews |
Sources of bias in systematic reviewsInterpretation of systematic reviews; 3 Assembling evidence about stroke units; Formulating the stroke unit question; Defining the intervention; Defining the patient group; Defining the context; Defining the outcomes; Identifying the relevant trials; Locating information from relevant trials; The stroke unit trials; General comments; Stroke unit characteristics; Characteristics of different models of stroke unit; 4 Effectiveness of organised (stroke unit) care; Conventions of meta-analysis; What is meta-analysis?; What is an odds ratio? |
Presentation of resultsCoping with different types of outcome; Meta- |
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