Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine - Hardcover

"[Jenicek] aims his lessons about clinical thinking at newly minted health professionals. His focus hits this target with laser precision, but it informs the jaded among us also. With scholarly poise, Jenicek tells us that the fundamentals of logic apply to both epidemiology and clinical medicine." - JAMA, November 19, 2003 "clarity and organizationbeautifully produced" - International Review of Psychiatry "very user-friendly" - Journal of Community Health "very oriented toward teaching the language of epidemiology and medical decision makingJenicek gives a marvelous summary of the most important health indicators" - Medical Decision Making "will be a valuable reference for epidemiologists" - Chronic Diseases in Canada "outstanding scholarshipthe detail of coverage of most topics, particularly in the clinical field, is remarkable" - The Lancet "outstanding tables and graphsthe last two chapters on meta-analysis and decision analysis are among the best overviews of these new fields that I have readthis volume is beautifully put together" - Canadian Family Physician

Presenting a cornucopia of topics seldom seen in a single resource, Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine explores the principles of formal logic as applied to clinical problems and the uses of evidence in logical reasoning. Filled with definitions, formulae, outlines, flow charts, and checklists, the book contains accounts and references for almost anything you might want to know about the constantly growing roles of public health and clinical epidemiology in modern medicine. It describes the reasoning behind diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis in practical clinical medicine and discusses methods in quantitative analysis, especially meta-analysis and decision analysis. The innovative blend of informal logic and structured evidence-based reasoning makes this book stand out in a crowd.