Full Description
Evidence-based Clinical Practice (EBCP) is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best external evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. In neurology, practice has shifted from a rich, descriptive discipline to one of increasingly diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Providing a comprehensive review of the current best evidence, Neurology: An Evidence-Based Approach presents this type of evidence in a concise, user-friendly and easily accessible manner. The three co-editors of this important volume are linked in their passion for evidence-based clinical practice in the clinical neurological sciences, connected to a common historical origin at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, Ontario Canada and influenced directly by Evidence-Based Medicine teachings of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Cananda. The book is organized in three sections: Basics of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, with an introduction to the topic, a chapter on the evolution of the hierarchy of evidence, and another chapter on guidelines for rating the quality of evidence and grading the strength of recommendation. The second section, Neurological Diseases, provides an illuminating overview of evidence-based care in ten of the most common areas in neurologic practice. The final, third section provides an outstanding roadmap for teaching evidence-based neurology with a chapter on the Evidence-Based Curriculum. A superb contribution to the literature, Neurology: An Evidence-Based Approach offers a well designed, well written, practical reference for all providers and researchers interested in the evidence-based practice of neurology.
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword Vladimir Hachinski
Preface Jorge G. Burneo, Bart M. Demaerschalk, Mary E. Jenkins
Part One Basics of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
Chapter 1 Evidence-Based Clinical Practice and the Neurosciences
Jorge G. Burneo, Bart M. Demaerschalk, Mary E. Jenkins
Chapter 2 The Hierarchy of Evidence: From Unsystematic Clinical Observations to Systematic Reviews Mohamed B. Elamin and Victor M. MontoriChapter 3 Guidelines: Rating the Quality of Evidence and Grading the Strength of Recommendations Yngve Falck-Ytter and Gordon H. Guyatt
Part Two Neurological Diseases
Chapter 4 Stroke
Maria I. Aguilar and Bart M. Demaerschalk
Chapter 5 Headache
Esma Dilli and David W. Dodick
Chapter 6 Epilepsy
Jorge G. Burneo and Robert C. Knowlton
Chapter 7 Movement Disorders
Mary E. Jenkins, Janis M. Miyasaki, Oksana Suchowersky
Chapter 8 Cognitive and BehaviouralNeurology
Elizabeth Finger and Kirk R. Daffner
Chapter 9 Neuromuscular Disorders
Brian A. Crum, Devon I. Rubin, Elliot L. Dimberg, Brent P. Goodman
Chapter 10 Neuropathic Pain
Brent P. Goodman
Chapter 11 Acute Therapies and Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis
Khurram Bashir and Dean M. Wingerchuk
Chapter 12 Infections of the Nervous System
Nicholas L. King and Jorge G. Burneo
Chapter 13 Neurocritical Care
Rajat Dhar and Michael N. Diringer
Part Three The Evidence-Based Neurology Curriculum
Chapter 14 The Evidence-Based Neurology Curriculum
Lawrence Korngut and Miguel Bussière.
