Evidence Based Pediatrics and Child Health is a ground-breaking new text on pediatrics and child care management, using evidence based approach. It covers all the major childhood conditions and contains the features of both a handbook and a reference text. Each chapter combines both advice on management and how best to practice evidence based medicine with reviews of all the available evidence in a specific area.
The goal of the book is to help pediatricians and others who care for children to provide the best possible care by combining the best, most current evidence with special circumstances of each individual patient.Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction: What is Evidence? (pages 1โ8): Virginia A Moyer and Elizabeth J Elliott
Chapter 2 Asking Questions (pages 9โ12): Stuart Logan and Ruth Gilbert
Chapter 3 Finding the Evidence (pages 13โ22): Virginia A Moyer and Connie Schardt
Chapter 4 Assessing Baseline Risk: Prevalence and Prognosis (pages 23โ29): Carol Bower
Chapter 5 Assessing Diagnostic and Screening Tests (pages 31โ43): Ruth Gilbert and Stuart Logan
Chapter 6 Assessing Therapy (pages 45โ59): Elizabeth J Elliott and Kathleen Kennedy
Chapter 7 Assessing Claims of Harm or Causation (pages 61โ71): Parminder Raina and Kate Turcotte
Chapter 8 Assessing Systematic Reviews and Clinical Guidelines (pages 73โ82): Geraldine Macdonald
Chapter 9 Grading Quality of Evidence (pages 83โ87): Alessandro Liberati, Roberto Buzzetti, Roberto Grilli, Nicola Magrini and Silvia Minozzi
Chapter 10 Clinical Measures (pages 89โ98): Sue Gilmour and Robert Klaassen
Chapter 11 Assessing Quality of Life (pages 99โ110): Elizabeth Waters and Elise Maher
Chapter 12 Qualitative Research (pages 111โ117): Donna Waters
Chapter 13 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (pages 119โ128): Sunita Vohra
Chapter 14 Communicating Evidence to Patients (pages 129โ138): Lyndal Trevena, Heather M Davey, Alexandra Barratt, Phyllis Butow and Patrina Caldwell
Chapter 15 Health Informatics (pages 139โ150): Martin Pusic
Chapter 16 Continuing Education (pages 151โ160): Susan Woolfenden and Jeanette Ward
Chapter 17 Using Evidence To Inform Decisions (pages 161โ166): Katrina Williams, Andrew Hayen, C Raina Macintyre and Craig Mellis
Chapter 18 The Well Child (pages 168โ180): Eugene Dinkevich, Jerry Niederman and Jordan Hupert
Chapter 19 Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (pages 181โ189): Melissa Wake
Chapter 20 Assessment of Developmental Delay (pages 191โ199): Louise Hartley, Alison Salt, Paul Gringras and Jon Dorling
Chapter 21 Immunizations (pages 201โ209): Helen Bedford and David Elliman
Chapter 22 Injury Prevention in the Clinical Setting (pages 211โ221): Karen Zwi and Ann Williamson
Chapter 23 Childhood Obesity (pages 223โ238): Laurel Edmunds and Elizabeth Waters
Chapter 24 Youth Smoking Cessation: School?Based Approaches (pages 239โ247): Chris Lovato, Gayla Swihart and Jean Shoveller
Chapter 25 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (pages 249โ253): Milton Tenenbein
Chapter 26 Fever in the Young Infant (pages 256โ266): Gina Neto
Chapter 27 Fever Without Focus in the Older Infant (pages 267โ275): Blake Bulloch
Chapter 28 Seizures Associated with Fever (pages 277โ284): Martin Offringa
Chapter 29 Meningitis (pages 285โ291): Peter McIntyre
Chapter 30 Asthma (pages 293โ304): Anne Morris and Craig Mellis
Chapter 31 Croup (pages 305โ317): Julie C Brown, Terry P Klassen and Natasha M Wiebe
Chapter 32 Bronchiolitis (pages 319โ329): Maud Meates?Dennis
Chapter 33 Otitis Media (pages 331โ340): Sandi Pirozzo and Chris Del Mar
Chapter 34 Gastroesophageal Reflux in the Infant (pages 341โ347): Lynnette J Mazur and Holly D Smith
Chapter 35 Gastroesophageal Reflux in the Adolescent (pages 349โ364): Holly D Smith and Lynnette J Mazur
Chapter 36 Constipation (pages 365โ375): Gregory S Liptak
Chapter 37 Acute Gastroenteritis (pages 377โ391): Kate Armon and Elizabeth J Elliott
Chapter 38 Appendicitis (pages 393โ404): Carolyn A Paris and Eileen J Klein
Chapter 39 Wound Repair and Tissue Adhesives (pages 405โ412): Martin H Osmond
Chapter 40 Iron Deficiency Anemia (pages 413โ421): Kent Stobart
Chapter 41 Nocturnal Enuresis (pages 423โ428): Jonathan HC Evans and Cathryn MA Glazener
Chapter 42 Acute Urinary Tract Infection (pages 429โ436): Virginia A Moyer and Jonathan Craig
Chapter 43 Diabetes (pages 437โ447): Margaret L Lawson
Chapter 44 Short Stature (pages 449โ454): Shayne P Taback and Heather J Dean
Chapter 45 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (pages 455โ467): James P Guevara and Martin T Stein
Chapter 46 Cerebral Palsy (pages 469โ481): Adam Scheinberg, Maureen E O'Donnell, Robert Armstrong and Katrina Williams
Chapter 47 Recurrent Apnea in the Newborn (pages 483โ489): David J Henderson?Smart
Chapter 48 Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia (pages 491โ498): Aaron Chiu
Chapter 49 Neonatal Encephalopathy (pages 499โ507): Nadia Badawi and John M Keogh
Chapter 50 Pain in the Newborn (pages 509โ521): Vibhuti Shah and Arne Ohlsson
Chapter 51 Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (pages 523โ535): David Osborn and Tracey Burrell
Chapter 52 Cognitive Outcomes in Very Preterm Infants (pages 537โ542): Lex W Doyle and Jon E Tyson