Clinical epidemiology & evidence-based medicine : fundamental principles of clinical reasoning & research / / David L. Katz
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| Autore: |
Katz David L., MD.
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| Titolo: |
Clinical epidemiology & evidence-based medicine : fundamental principles of clinical reasoning & research / / David L. Katz
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| Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, CA, : Sage Publications, c2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxi, 295 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 614.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Clinical epidemiology |
| Evidence-based medicine | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-282) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Section I - Principles of Clinical Reasoning; Chapter 1 - Of Patients and Populations: Population-Based Data in Clinical Practice; Chapter 2 - Test Performance: Disease Probability, Test Interpretation and Diagnosis; Chapter 3 - Quantitative Aspects of Clinical Thinking: Predictive Values and Bayes' Theorem; Chapter 4 - Fundamentals of Screening: The Art and Science of Looking for Trouble; Chapter 5 - Measuring and Conveying Risk; Section II - Principles of Clinical Research; Chapter 6 - Hypothesis Testing 1: Principles |
| Chapter 7 - Hypothesis Testing 2: MechanicsChapter 8 - Study Design; Chapter 9 - Interpreting Statistics in the Medical Literature; Section III - From Research to Reasoning: The Application of Evidence in Clinical Practice; Chapter 10 - Decision Analysis; Chapter 11 - Diagnosis; Chapter 12 - Management; Appendices; Appendix A - Getting at the Evidence; Appendix B - Considering Cost In Clinical Practice:The Constraint of Resource Limitations; Appendix C - Clinically Useful Measures Derived from the 2 x 2 Contingency Table; Glossary; Text Sources; Epilogue; Index; About the Author | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Written as a reference tool and resource for health care professionals, David L. Katz's primer uses clinical examples and extracts from peer-reviewed literature to show how statistical principles can improve medical decision making. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Clinical epidemiology & evidence-based medicine |
| ISBN: | 1-5063-1965-3 |
| 1-4522-6431-7 | |
| 1-322-41700-8 | |
| 1-4522-3263-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807609003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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