{"product_id":"practising-evidence-based-primary-care-isbn-9781857754056","title":"Practising Evidence-based Primary Care","description":"The practice of evidence-based medicine is a process of life-long, self-directed, problem-based learning. Caring for each patient creates the need for clinically important information about diagnosis, therapy and other clinical and healthcare issues. This workbook is designed to help clinicians develop and improve these skills, by showing how to: convert information into answerable questions; track down the best evidence with maximum efficiency; make best use of the variety of primary and secondary evidence; critically appraise evidence for validity, importance and usefulness; integrate the appraisal with clinical expertise and apply the results; and how to evaluate the practitioner's own performance. \u003cbr\u003e Focusing on the special situation of GPs and the whole primary care team, this flexible approach offers a clear, concise tool for everyone involved in postgraduate and vocational training. It contains papers, self-evaluation sheets and relevant extracts from journals. Tutor's notes are also included. \u003cb\u003eSession 1:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSection 1\u003cbr\u003e Part A: Therapy (diarrhoea)\u003cbr\u003e Part B: Asking answerable clinical questions \u003cp\u003eSection 2\u003cbr\u003e Part A: Therapy (myocardial infarction)\u003cbr\u003e Part B: Asking answerable clinical questions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSession 2:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part A: Diagnosis (fever in children)\u003cbr\u003e Part B: Introduction to the CATMaker software\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSession 3:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part A: Prognosis (stroke)\u003cbr\u003e Part B: Searching the evidence-based journals\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSession 4:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part A: Harm (hormone replacement therapy)\u003cbr\u003e Part B: Searching the primary literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSession 5:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part A. Systematic review (acute respiratory infection)\u003cbr\u003e Part B: Searching the Cochrane Library\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSession 6:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part A: Presentations \u003cbr\u003e Part B: Searching for evidence on the WWW\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSession 7:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part A: Presentations\u003cbr\u003e Part B: Feedback and celebration\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of terms\u003cbr\u003e Review of study designs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtracts from Evidence-based Medicine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTutor's Guide\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTim Lancaster is the author of Practising Evidence-based Primary Care, published by Wiley.   The practice of evidence-based medicine is a process of life-long, self-directed, problem-based learning. Caring for each patient creates the need for clinically important information about diagnosis, therapy and other clinical and healthcare issues. This workbook is designed to help clinicians develop and improve these skills, by showing how to: convert information into answerable questions; track down the best evidence with maximum efficiency; make best use of the variety of primary and secondary evidence; critically appraise evidence for validity, importance and usefulness; integrate the appraisal with clinical expertise and apply the results; and how to evaluate the practitioner's own performance. \u003cbr\u003e Focusing on the special situation of GPs and the whole primary care team, this flexible approach offers a clear, concise tool for everyone involved in postgraduate and vocational training. It contains papers, self-evaluation sheets and relevant extracts from journals. Tutor's notes are also included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BMJ Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989837824229,"sku":"NP9781857754056","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781857754056.jpg?v=1761785632","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/practising-evidence-based-primary-care-isbn-9781857754056","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}