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By L. Santiago Medina, C. Craig Blackmore, Kimberly E. Applegate (auth.), L. Santiago Medina, C. Craig Blackmore, Kimberly Applegate (eds.)

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ISBN-13: 9781441977762

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ISBN-13: 9781441977779

Evidence-Based Imaging: caliber Imaging in sufferer Care, Revised version provides the radiologist and clinician with a ordinary consultant to the evidence-based technology and the benefit in the back of the diagnostic imaging played in medication. Edited through Drs. L. Santiago Medina, C. Craig Blackmore, and Kimberly E. Applegate, this excellent reference gathers contributions by way of internationally-renowned experts within the box. The ebook offers a scientific framework for realizing the easiest imaging offerings for sufferer care. Chapters spotlight key issues that aid the medical purposes, permitting speedy entry to pertinent info. subject matters comprise sufferer choice, imaging thoughts, try out functionality, cost-effectiveness, and applicability. This Revised variation provides ten new chapters to the cloth from the unique, hardcover variation, protecting radiation possibility in clinical imaging, the industrial and regulatory impression of evidence-based imaging within the new healthcare reform setting within the usa, and new subject matters on universal issues. by means of providing a transparent figuring out of the technology in the back of the facts, the ebook fills a void for radiologists, clinicians, citizens, and others with an curiosity in clinical imaging and a wish to enforce an evidence-based approach.

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37. Blackmore C. Radiology 2005;235(2):371–374. 38. Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH, Sackett DL. JAMA 1994;271:703–707. 39. Malone D. Radiology 2007;242(1):12–14. 40. Medina LS, Blackmore DD. EvidenceBased Imaging: Optimizing Imaging in Patient. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 2006. 2 Critically Assessing the Literature: Understanding Error and Bias C. Craig Blackmore, L. Santiago Medina, James G. Ravenel, Gerard A. Silvestri, and Kimberly E. Applegate Issues I. What are error and bias? II. What is random error?

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Fryback DG, Thornbury JR. Med Decis Making 1991;11:88–94. 37. Blackmore C. Radiology 2005;235(2):371–374. 38. Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH, Sackett DL. JAMA 1994;271:703–707. 39. Malone D. Radiology 2007;242(1):12–14. 40. Medina LS, Blackmore DD. EvidenceBased Imaging: Optimizing Imaging in Patient. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 2006. 2 Critically Assessing the Literature: Understanding Error and Bias C. Craig Blackmore, L. Santiago Medina, James G. Ravenel, Gerard A. Silvestri, and Kimberly E.

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