The Evidence for Cardiothoracic Surgery

Professor Tom Treasure, Professor and Sir Bruce Keogh, Dr Ian Hunt, Dr Domenico Pagano (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

354 Seiten

2004 | New edition
TFM Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-903378-20-5 (ISBN)

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What is the evidence? Evidence-based medicine, or EBM which slips off the tongue more readily, seeks to offer proof that what we offer patients whenever we treat them, do a diagnostic test, or recommend anything from an operation to change in life style, is known to be effective. Fifty to 100 years ago, health care was delivered patchily, much less of it was effective, and was based on an image of a kindly doctor treating the sick, who were glad of whatever help could be offered. Now, medicine is effective and whether you look at it as major government expense or big business in private health care insurance, there is no sense in spending money on ineffective treatments, while we do not have enough to spend on what is of proven worth. Individual doctors cannot read everything and cannot possibly synthesise what they do read, so that they are aware of what is proven to be effective and what probably is not. The "The Evidence for ..." series seeks to fill that need. Into "The Evidence for Cardiothoracic Surgery" we have commissioned systematic reviews of the common operations and some innovative treatments, to present the facts to busy doctors. Where is there and where is there not evidence?

B Keogh is Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. D Pagano is Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Professor T Treasure is Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Guy's & St Thomas's Hospitals, London. I Hunt SpR is Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Guy's & St Thomas's Hospitals, London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2004
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Harley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	209 x 273 mm
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Herz- / Thorax- / Gefäßchirurgie
ISBN-10	1-903378-20-6 / 1903378206
ISBN-13	978-1-903378-20-5 / 9781903378205
Zustand	Neuware