52 research outputs found
Terminologia DeCS e as novas regras ortográficas da língua portuguesa: orientações para uma atualização
Outcomes research in the development and evaluation of practice guidelines
BACKGROUND: Practice guidelines have been developed in response to the observation that variations exist in clinical medicine that are not related to variations in the clinical presentation and severity of the disease. Despite their widespread use, however, practice guideline evaluation lacks a rigorous scientific methodology to support its development and application. DISCUSSION: Firstly, we review the major epidemiological foundations of practice guideline development. Secondly, we propose a chronic disease epidemiological model in which practice patterns are viewed as the exposure and outcomes of interest such as quality or cost are viewed as the disease. Sources of selection, information, confounding and temporal trend bias are identified and discussed. SUMMARY: The proposed methodological framework for outcomes research to evaluate practice guidelines reflects the selection, information and confounding biases inherent in its observational nature which must be accounted for in both the design and the analysis phases of any outcomes research study
Prognosis after ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a study on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging versus clinical routine
Extrinsic- and intrinsic-dependent variation in component communities and patterns of aggregations in helminth parasites of great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) from N.E. Poland
A Time-to-Treatment Analysis in the Medicine Versus Angiography in Thrombolytic Exclusion (MATE) Trial
Low Doses of Intracoronary Enalaprilat Suppress Reperfusion-Associated Ventricular Arrhythmias after Primary Percutaneous Coronary Interventions for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Cucullanus marajoara n. sp. (Nematoda: Cucullanidae), a parasite of Colomesus psittacus (Osteichthyes: Tetraodontiformes) in the Marajó, Brazil
Association of a History of Systemic Hypertension With Mortality, Thrombotic, and Bleeding Complications Following Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome
Remote Ischemic Perconditioning in Thrombolysed Stroke Patients: Randomized Study of Activating Endogenous Neuroprotection – Design and MRI Measurements
Clinical results of two year dual antiplatelet therapy after primary percutaneous coronary intervention with paclitaxel-eluting stents: a single centre study
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