Evidence Based Pediatrics and Child Health
Elliott, Elizabeth; Moyer, Virginia A; Williams, Katrina
Pub. Date: 07/05/2004
Availability: In print
Editor: Edited by Virginia A Moyer, Katrina Williams and Elizabeth Elliott
Binding: hardback; CD-ROM
Description:
Evidence Based Pediatrics and Child Health is a ground-breaking new text on pediatrics and child care management, using evidence based approach. It covers all the major childhood conditions and contains the features of both a handbook and a reference text. Each chapter combines both advice on management and how best to practice evidence based medicine with reviews of all the available evidence in a specific area.
The goal of the book is to help pediatricians and others who care for children to provide the best possible care by combining the best, most current evidence with special circumstances of each individual patient.
Contents:
The long view of EBMFraming questionsSearching for the evidenceAssessing baseline risk and prognosisDiagnostic tests/screeningTherapyCausation, harmPredigested evidence: synthesesStrength of evidence, evidence scalesClinical measurement, clinical disagreementQuality of lifeQualitative researchComplementary and alternative medicineCommunicating evidence to patients - shared decision-makingInformaticsKeeping up/continuing educationApplying the evidenceThe well child exam: monitoring and case-findingnewborn hearing screeningAssessment of developmentImmunizationsInjury prevention and controlChildhood obesitySmoking cessationSIDSFever in the young infantFever without focusFebrile seizuresMeningitisAsthmaCroupBronchiolitisOtitis MediaGastrooesophageal reflux in infantsGastrooesophageal reflux in adolescentsConstipationGatroenteritisAppendicitisWound repair and tissue adhesivesIron deficiency and iron deficiency anemiaEnuresisUTIDiabetesShort statureADHDCerebral palsyNeonatal apneaUnconjugated hyperbilirubinemiaNeonatal encephalopathyPain control in the neonateNeonatal abstinance syndromeCognitive outcomes in very preterm infants