Concise guide to evidence-based psychiatry
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Concise guide to evidence-based psychiatry
（Concise guides）
American Psychiatric Pub., c2003
1st ed
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Evidence-based psychiatry
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Concise Guides Series
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction to evidence-based medicine
Chapter 2. The 5-step evidence-based medicine model
Chapter 3. Asking answerable questions
Chapter 4. Searching for answers
Chapter 5. Clinical trials
Chapter 6. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Chapter 7. Clinical practice guidelines
Chapter 8. Diagnostic tests
Chapter 9. Surveys of disease frequency
Chapter 10. Studies of risk or harm
Chapter 11. Studies of prognosis
Chapter 12. Evaluating your performance
Chapter 13. Learning and practicing evidence-based psychiatry
Chapter 14. Teaching evidence-based medicine to psychiatry residents
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Statistical formulas and tables
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