TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pines,Jesse M.
AU  - Everett,Worth W.
TI  - Evidence-based emergency care: diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules 
SN  - 9781405154000 (pbk.) :
AV  - RC86.7 .P56 2008
U1  - 616.025 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - BMJ Books
KW  - Emergency medicine
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Evidence-based medicine
KW  - Emergency Medicine
KW  - methods
KW  - Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Diagnostic testing in emergency care -- Evidence-based medicine the process -- The epidemiology and statistics of diagnostic testing -- Clinical decision rules -- Cervical spine fractures -- Cervical spine fractures in older adults -- Cervical spine fractures in children -- Blunt abdominal trauma -- Acute knee injuries -- Blunt abdominal trauma -- Acute knee injuries -- Blunt head injury -- Blunt head trauma in children -- Acute ankle and foot injuries -- Occult scaphoid fractures -- Blunt chest trauma -- Occult hip fracture -- Heart failure -- Syncope -- Acute coronary syndrome -- Serious bacterial infections and occult bacteremia in children -- Bacterial meningitis in children -- Necrotizing fasciitis -- Pharyngitis -- Infective endocarditis -- Urinary tract infection -- Sinusitis -- Pneumonia -- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis -- Acute nonspecific, nontraumatic abdominal pain -- Bowel obstruction -- Acute pancreatitis -- Acute appendicitis -- Acute cholecystitis -- Kidney stones -- Testicular torsion -- Subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Acute stroke -- Pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis -- Temporal arteritis -- Intraocular pressure -- Asthma
N2  - This reference uses an evidence-based 'just the facts' approach to diagnostic test ordering and clinical decision rules in the emergency department. It aims to be of use to physicians of all levels who want to refresh their memories on basic statistics and on how to use evidence-based practice when ordering and interpreting tests
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007043480-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007043480-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007043480-t.html
ER  -