Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine

Milos Jenicek is Professor (PT), McMaster University, Professor Emeritus at the Université de Montréal and former Adjunct Professor at McGill University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. In 2009, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK.

Part 1: How do we see things in medicine: Our trains of thought. 1. How do we see medicine, health and disease? A basic set of rules and fundamental paradigms (including evidence). 2. The work of physicians with individuals and communities: Epidemiology and other partners in evidence-based medicine. 3. The logic in modern medicine: Reasoning and underlying concepts. Part 2: How do we do things in medicine: Gathering and evaluating evidence. 4. Producing evidence: Classification, objectives and worthiness of medical research. 5. Assessing the health of individuals and communities: Health indicators, indexes and scales. 6. Identifying cases of disease: Clinimetrics and diagnosis. 7. Describing what happens: Clinical case reports, case series, occurrence studies. 8. Search for causes of disease occurrence: Why does disease occur? 9. The impact of treatment and other clinical and community health interventions: A 'does it work?' evaluation. 10. Prognosis: Studies of disease course and outcomes. Part 3: Putting experiences together and making decisions in medicine: Structured uses of evidence. 11. Analyzing and integrating a body of knowledge: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis of evidence. 12. Using evidence and logic in everyday clinical reasoning, communication and legal and scientific argumentation. 13. Decision analysis and decision-making in medicine: Beyond intuition, guts and flair. Epilogue: Widening horizons, staying in touch - What next? Glossary: Preferred terms and their definitions in the context of this book.