Foundations of evidence-based medicine : clinical epidemiology and beyond / Milos Jenicek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How do we see medicine, health and disease? A basic set of rules and fundamental paradigms (including evidence!) -- The work of physicians with individuals and communities. Epidemiology and other partners in evidence-based medicine -- The logic of modern medicine. Reasoning and underlying concepts -- Producing evidence. Classification, objectives and worthiness of medical research -- Assessing the health of individuals and communities. Health indicators, indexes, and scales -- Identifying cases of disease. Clinimetrics and diagnosis -- Describing what happens. Clinical case reports, case series, occurrence studies -- Search for causes of disease occurrence. Why does disease occur? -- The impact of treatment and other clinical and community health interventions. A 'does it work?' evaluation -- Prognosis. Studies of disease course and outcomes -- Analyzing sand integrating a body of knowledge. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis of evidence -- Using evidence and logic in everyday clinical reasoning, communication, and legal and scientific argumentation -- Decision analysis and decision-making in medicine. Beyond intuition, guts and flair -- Epilogue. Widening horizons, staying in touch. What next?.