Evidence-Based Medicine: Principles for Applying the Users' Guides to Patient Care
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Tips for applying the principles of evidence-based medicine to the care of individual patients are presented. Evidence-based medicine means forming treatment plans based on scientific evidence of what works and what does not work. This evidence usually comes from clinical trials.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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How to use an article evaluating the clinical impact of a computer-based clinical decision support system
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Computer-based clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) may improve patient care by guiding physicians in their clinical decisions, but validating such systems is complicated. CDSSs might evaluate laboratory test results, compare physician orders against standard protocols, and offer treatment recommendations. Evaluations should randomize patients or physicians to an intervention group using the CDSS and a control group not using the system. Research on CDSSs is difficult because staff using the CDSS, and learning from it, may also treat patients not assigned to CDSS-guided care. Physicians should carefully evaluate the research methods employed when they are reviewing clinical trials of CDSS systems.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1999
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