Book description
This useful handbook provides a concise compilation of the evidence
supporting diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules in emergency
care. Clinical decision rules are now widely recognised as best practice
for the ordering of diagnostic tests in the emergency department.
Aimed at all physicians working with emergency and acute patients, the
book begins with an overview of how to evaluate a diagnostic test using
an evidence-based approach, followed by an explanation of the clinical
decision rules and the methods of assessing the strength and
applicability of the clinical prediction rule.
These introductory chapters are followed by sections covering the
following clinical areas:
* Traumatic Injuries
* Cardiology
* Infectious Disease
* Surgical and Abdominal Complaints
* Urology
* Neurology
* Ophthalmology, Hematology, Rheumatology
* Pulmonology.
For each test and clinical decision rule, the most current and best
available studies in the literature are discussed and applied to
emergency department and acute care patients in addressing the question
at hand, followed by an overall recommendation on how to use the test or
rule in the clinical context.
Evidence-Based Emergency Care is an accessible and extremely useful
reference for physicians at all levels to use in applying an
evidence-based approach to ordering and interpreting tests in an acute
care environment. Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA
and Worth Everett, MD
Both Dr. Pines and Dr. Everett practice emergency medicine at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
They are trained in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, and well
versed in evidence-based medicine methodology
