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Explaining Health State Utility Assessment JAMA Guide to …

WebHealth state utilities are used to provide quantitative measures of how strongly a person values a certain health state. 1 Distinct from other patient-reported outcome measures, which may not be based on preference, utilities estimate a person’s preference for an outcome, such as sexual dysfunction, which may be very different from another person’s. …

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What Is Evidence-Based Medicine

WebEvidence-based medicine (EBM) involves conscientiously working with patients to help them resolve (sometimes) or cope with (often) problems related to their physical, mental, and social health. The EBM approach necessitates awareness and understanding of clinical research evidence.For those involved in making health care decisions, EBM …

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Evidence-Based Medicine and the Theory of Knowledge

WebEvidence-based medicine, while acknowledging that interpretation of evidence is inevitably subjective, is consistent with philosophical views that endorse a central role of evidence as the basis of generating agreement among rational observers. 1,2 Philosophers also have found that the pursuit of truth is best accomplished by examining the totality of evidence …

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Methods for Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy—The …

WebThe difference-in-differences study design addresses this problem by using a comparison group that is experiencing the same trends but is not exposed to the policy change. 4 Outcomes after and before the policy are compared between the study group and the comparison group without the exposure (group A) and the study group with the exposure …

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Pneumonia, Adult, Community-Acquired The Rational Clinical

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Heart Failure The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based

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The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical …

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Qualitative Research Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A

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Depression The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based …

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Confounding by Indication in Clinical Research JAMA Guide to

WebIn the assessment of the effect of a treatment or potential risk factor—termed an exposure—on a patient outcome, the possibility of confounding by other factors must be considered. 1 For example, if researchers studied the effect of coffee drinking on the development of lung cancer, they might observe an apparent association between these …

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Stroke, Hemorrhagic The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence …

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Logistic Regression: Relating Patient Characteristics to Outcomes

WebIn an article published in JAMA, Seymour et al 1 presented a new method for estimating the probability of a patient dying of sepsis using information on the patient's respiratory rate, systolic blood pressure, and altered mentation. The method used these clinical characteristics—called “predictor” or explanatory or independent variables—to estimate …

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Abdominal Bruits The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence …

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Generalized Anxiety or Panic Disorder The Rational Clinical

WebThe best measures for assessing the likelihood of these disorders are through patient self-report, prompted by clinician administered questionnaires (see Table 95-1) and clinical assessment.The Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale 7 Item (GAD-7) evaluates symptoms during the prior 2 weeks and asks about the presence of 7 different symptoms that are …

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Temporal Arteritis The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence …

WebTemporal arteritis is relatively rare, though the disease may be underdiagnosed. 13 The prevalence increases with age, and it occurs more commonly among women and whites. One study found that, among white persons 50 years and older, the prevalence of temporal arteritis was 200 cases per 100 000; among persons older than 85 years, the prevalence …

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Low Back Pain The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based

WebAlthough it accounts for less than 1% of patients with back pain, cancer is the most common of systemic causes. Cancer should be considered as a possible cause of low back pain in patients older than 50 years with low back pain and in patients with a history of cancer (especially prostate, lung, or breast carcinoma).

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Appendicitis, Adult The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence …

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Peripheral Arterial Disease: Interview With Dr James M. Grichnik

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Chapter 7.1: Therapy (Randomized Trials)

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Overview of Cost-effectiveness Analysis

WebChoosing among alternative treatments or programs is complicated because benefits, harms, and costs vary in the following ways: (1) benefits may be reflected in varying patterns of reduced morbidity or mortality in patients; (2) interventions vary in price and also in costs of acquiring or providing them (eg, time costs); and (3) benefits and costs accrue …

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