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Evidence based pediatrics and child health /

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This is the second edition of this title on how to implement evidence-based practice in paediatrics and child health. New chapters have been added on searching and implementing the evidence and neonatal conditions making the text even more comprehensive.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Moyer, Virginia A., Elliott, Elizabeth J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: London : BMJ Books, 2004.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Evidence-based medicine.
Subjects:
Pediatrics.
Evidence-based medicine.
Pediatrics > methods
Evidence-Based Medicine
Pediatrics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: what is evidence?
  • Asking questions
  • Finding the evidence
  • Assessing baseline risk: prevalence and prognosis
  • Assessing diagnostic and screening tests
  • Assessing therapy
  • Assessing claims of harm or causation
  • Assessing systematic reviews and clinical guidelines
  • Grading quality of evidence
  • Clinical measures
  • Assessing quality of life
  • Qualitative research
  • Complementary and alternative medicine
  • Communicating evidence to patients
  • Health informatics
  • Continuning education
  • Using evidence to inform decisions
  • The well child
  • Universal newborn hearing screening
  • Assessment of developmental delay
  • Immunizations
  • Injury prevention in the clinical setting
  • Childhood obesity
  • Youth smoking cessation: school-based approaches
  • Sudden infant dealth syndrome
  • Fever in the young infant
  • Fever without focus in the older infant
  • Seizures associated with fever
  • Meningitis
  • Asthma
  • Croup
  • Bronchiolitis
  • Otitis media
  • Gastroesophageal reflux in the infant
  • Gastroesophageal reflux in the adolescent
  • Constipation
  • Acute gastroenteritis
  • Appendicitis
  • Wound repair and tissue adhesives
  • Iron deficiency anemia
  • Nocturnal enuresis
  • Acute urinary tract infection
  • Diabetes
  • Short stature
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Recurrent apnea in the newborn
  • Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
  • Neonatal encephalopathy
  • Pain in the newborn
  • Neonatal abstinence syndrome
  • Cognitive outcomes in very preterm infants.