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Emergency Medicine Decision Making: Critical Issues in Chaotic Environments

1st Edition
007144212X · 9780071442121
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Understanding the Basics

Medical Statistics1. Probability2. P values3. Confidence Intervals

Key Concepts4. Sensitivity and Specificity5. Predictive Values6. Likelihood Ratios7. The Risks of Relativity8. Number Needed to Treat9. Bias10. Spectrum Calculations11. Confounders

The Literature of Emergency Medicine12. The problems of the body of “Emergency Medicine Literature”13. The application of Emergency Medicine literature to Continuous Certification

Types of Literature14. Textbooks15. Retrospective Trials16. Prospective Trials17. Meta-Analyses18. Integrative Studies19. Qualitative Studies

Evaluating an Article

20. Internal Validity21. External Validity

Finding Information When Seconds Count22. Searching Medline23. Using the Internet24. Personal Databases25. Other Sources

Medical Decision Making in the ED26. Action and Testing Thresholds27. Disease Likelihood and Bayesian Analysis28. Weighing Treatment Benefits and Harm

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Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine, a highly readable primer, will be the first book to teach EBM principles and their clinical application with the unique mindset and needs of the Emergency Medicine physician in mind


This one-of-a-kind guide discusses the search, evaluation, and proper use of the literature of emergency medicine, from textbooks to trials and qualitative studies to systematic reviews. It reveals how and where to find the quality information needed when seconds count. Fully exploring medical decision making using cognitive psychology, Bayesian analysis and more, it shows how to apply the knowledge they provide to achieve superior diagnosis and management of ED patients. The avoidance of medical errors is emphasized through the precepts of critical thinking and heuristics.