Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines

Discusses the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by health care professionals. This guidebook includes both diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines. It covers practically all medical conditions encountered in general practice, along with over 1000 problem-orientated or disease-specific guidelines. Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines (EBMG) is a handbook on the wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by the physician in everyday practice. The guidelines have two approaches: problem-based and disease-specific, and are linked to the best available evidence including Cochrane Reviews and DARE Abstracts. Other sources of evidence include clinical evidence, original articles and systematic reviews in clinical journals, abstracts in the Health Technology Assessment Database and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database, and clinical guidelines that describe evidence systematically. Where recommendations are given in the absence of high-quality evidence, they are based on textbooks, review articles, and expert opinion agreed upon by independent referees. Pulled together by hundreds of experts and compiled by the team of editors, EBMG also seeks to include guidelines where clinical evidence is incomplete or unavailable. A specific feature of this textbook is the use of evidence codes (A, B, C, D) that appear in connection with many of the guideline recommendations. The coding corresponds to that proposed by the GRADE Working Group for grading the quality of evidence – they do not indicate the strength of the recommendations. A (high): Further research is very unlikely to change our confidence in the estimate of effect. B (moderate): Further research is likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect and…