Neurology: An Evidence-Based Approach / Edition 1

by Jorge G Burneo, Bart M. Demaerschalk, Mary E. Jenkins

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387885544
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	09/21/2011
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of 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 Behavioural Neurology

                                    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.