Product Description

Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines fills the demand for a handbook discussing the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by health care professionals.

The title was first published in Finland by the Finnish Medical Society, where it is now considered to be the single most important support tool for the physicians' decision making in their daily work.

What sets EBM Guidelines apart from competing books?

• Provides physicians with fast and easy access to practice guidelines based on the best available research evidence
• Covers practically all medical conditions encountered in general practice
• Developed by over 300 experienced general practitioners and specialists worldwide
• Includes both diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, and recommendations on diagnostic tests and drug dosage
• Presented in a user-friendly format with self contained chapters based on clinical subjects
• Clear and concise explanations of all available evidence results in the guideline for treatment
• The strength of evidence is graded from A-D making this title a quick and easy reference whenever and wherever you need it!
• Assumes no prior knowledge of EBM or statistics - all the work of searching and appraisal has been done for you!
• Seeks to include guidelines where clinical evidence is incomplete or unavailable
• Contains full-colour photographs and tables throughout

Easy-to-read and fast support at the point of care - EBM Guidelines:

1. Summarises the best available evidence - Cochrane reviews - DARE abstracts - Clinical Evidence topics - original articles in medical journals - abstracts in the Health Technology Assessment Database - NHS Economic Evaluation
2. Evaluates and grades the strength of all individual evidence from A (Strong research-based evidence) to D (No scientific evidence)
3. Suggests guidelines based on clinical evidence. If clinical evidence is inadequate or missing, an expert panel evaluate all other available information and suggests the appropriate guideline

With over 1000 problem-orientated or disease-specific guidelines including reference to evidence summaries for all guidelines, this title is the most extensive collection of guidelines for primary care today.

Here are just a few examples of the raving reviews for Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines:

"An excellent resource… quick to use, even during consultations…very helpful to check whether our preferred diagnostic and therapeutic methods are adequate…competent suggestions based on real evidence…"
—Heinz Bhend, PRIMARY CARE

"clinically useful answers…easy-to-read …this resource is worth using…"
—Carl Heneghan, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK, EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE Journal

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1244941 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1378 pages

Review
"…the first international printing of a highly respected physicians' decision making tool…highly recommended for primary care physicians…" (E-STREAMS, February 2006)

"...likely to be used by primary care physicians on a daily basis since it is comprehensive, easy to read, up-to-date, and practical." (Doody's Health Services)

"...the breadth of subject matter covered is enormous...is clear and unambiguous and is full of common sense..." (www.univadis.co.uk, 19th December 2005)

From the Back Cover
Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines (EBMG) is a handbook on the wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by the physician in everyday practice.  The guidelines have two approaches:  problem-based and disease-specific, and are linked to the best available evidence including Cochrane Reviews and DARE Abstracts.  Other sources of evidence include clinical evidence, original articles and systematic reviews in clinical journals, abstracts in the Health Technology Assessment Database and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database, and clinical guidelines that describe evidence systematically.  Where recommendations are given in the absence of high-quality evidence, they are based on textbooks, review articles, and expert opinion agreed upon by independent referees. Pulled together by hundreds of experts and compiled by the team of editors, EBMG also seeks to include guidelines where clinical evidence is incomplete or unavailable. 

A specific feature of this textbook is the use of evidence codes (A, B, C, D) that appear in connection with many of the guideline recommendations.  The coding corresponds to that proposed by the GRADE Working Group for grading the quality of evidence – they do not indicate the strength of the recommendations.

• A (high): Further research is very unlikely to change our confidence in the estimate of effect.
• B (moderate): Further research is likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect and may change the estimate.
• C (low): Further research is very likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect and is likely to change the estimate.
• D (very low): Any estimate of effect is very uncertain.

(Adapted from the GRADE Working Group (BMJ 2004;328:1490–8))

The result is a concise and easy-to-use book intended for GPs and other primary care physicians as a practical tool for clinical decisions. It is also of practical use by specialists, not in their own field, but as a reference to other specialities.  

Originally created in Finland and associated with the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim, Evidenced-Based Medicine Guidelines was first published as an electronic version but it has become apparent that a print version is highly desirable for busy practitioners who need a quick and handy reference when not at their keyboards.