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Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry

  • ISBN-13: 9781585620968
  • Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION PUBLISHING
    Imprint: AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION PUBLISHING
  • By Gregory E. Gray
  • Price: AUD $140.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/11/2003
  • Format: Paperback (165.00mm X 106.00mm) 264 pages Weight: 227g
  • Categories: Psychiatry [MMH]
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Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry (EBP) is a must-have resource for informed decision-making in psychiatric practice today. This single, easy-to-use reference will enable practitioners to find answers to clinical questions, critically appraise articles, and apply the results of their findings to patients. This practical handbook provides quick access to EBP theories, tools, and methods. Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry is a one-stop reference for using the literature to improve patient outcomes. Features include: Practical -- Filled with how-to information, Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry outlines the latest techniques for accessing, assessing, and interpreting the literature. Easy to use -- Includes many tables of essential websites for finding reliable information on the Internet, best-practice strategies for searching the medical literature. Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry fills an important role as the first EBP text for teaching residents, who are now required to develop such skills to meet the ACGME "practice-based learning and improvement" core competency. Special features for pedagogical use include suggestions for teaching EBP in residency programs, profuse examples from the psychiatric literature, and worksheets for the critical appraisal of clinical trials, diagnostic tests, epidemiologic studies, studies of prognosis, and more. Whether for self-study or use in residency programs, Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry is the best resource available to help practitioners apply current research findings to their work with patients.
Introduction to the Concise Guides SeriesPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction to evidence-based medicineChapter 2. The 5-step evidence-based medicine modelChapter 3. Asking answerable questionsChapter 4. Searching for answersChapter 5. Clinical trialsChapter 6. Systematic reviews and meta-analysesChapter 7. Clinical practice guidelinesChapter 8. Diagnostic testsChapter 9. Surveys of disease frequencyChapter 10. Studies of risk or harmChapter 11. Studies of prognosisChapter 12. Evaluating your performanceChapter 13. Learning and practicing evidence-based psychiatryChapter 14. Teaching evidence-based medicine to psychiatry residentsAppendix A: GlossaryAppendix B: Statistical formulas and tables
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