Evidence-Based Practitioner covers all aspects of accessing, interpreting, and applying the best knowledge about medications to ensure optimal patient care.

Features:

• A step-by-step description of a sound evidence-based decision-making process
• Discussions on how to formulate a drug information question and how to use the clinical literature to find an answer relevant for a particular patient
• Key information about critical appraisal of evidence sources, descriptive and inferential statistics, and the principles of decision analysis
• The basics on lifelong learning tools such as reference manager software, handheld devices to access data at the point of care, and techniques for interviewing pharmaceutical company field representatives
• A CD-ROM that contains all appendix material plus supplemental information and exercises to test the skills learned in several chapters
• Exercises, critical appraisal worksheets, links to Web-based tutorials, and resources for locating evidence-based medicine
• Case scenarios that illustrate the application of evidence-based medicine

Contents

1. Introduction to Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy
2. Searching the Biomedical Literature: Finding a Needle in a Haystack
3. Matching the Question With the Best Available Evidence
4. Demystifying Statistics
5. Transforming Evidence Into Action
6. Making a Pharmacotherapy Decision Using a Decison-Analytic Framework
7. Applying Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy to Formulary Decisions
8. Keeping Up to Date

Index

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