Evidence-based urology

Book Review: Evidence-based Urology

Modern medicine increasingly requires the clinician, including urologists, to apply evidence based medicine in their daily practice. What clinicians thought were true are being constantly changed through evidence search and evidence merging to derive on a new clinical message. Addition of new evidence then goes on to regularly challenge these clinical messages. This book is divided into two par...

The bedrock of daily practice on urology and evidence based medicine.

¿Por qué debería preocuparnos el nivel de evidencia de la práctica urológica? Es bien sabido que las investigaciones con niveles de evidencia altos derivan de pruebas controladas y aleatorizadas y de estudios de cohorte prospectivos adecuadamente diseñados. Otros diseños de estudios tienden a sobrestimar los efectos del tratamiento y a menudo hacen que las nuevas terapias parezcan mejores de lo...

Evidence-based prescription of antibiotics in urology: a 5-year review of microbiology.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the results of positive urine cultures over a 5-year period in a large hospital and urology department (amongst both inpatients and outpatients), assess the prevalence of different organisms and the resistance profiles of a range of antibiotics, and thus provide information on which organisms are likely to cause urosepsis. METHODS The use of antibiotics should be based on...

Evidence-based urology: how does a randomized clinical trial achieve its designed goals?

PURPOSE To discuss the methodological considerations of a standard and applicable randomized clinical trial (RCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a predefined strategy, we conducted systematic computerized search of the MEDLINE (1966 to 2011) and EMBASE (1980 to 2011) databases to identify all English language educational articles discussing the RCT methodological aspects. Full text versions of ...

Evidence-based urology in practice: heterogeneity in a systematic review meta-analysis.