Regular and frequent use of acute or symptomatic medications can worsen headaches cause chronification headache medication-overuse (MOH). Although MOH is a burdensome medical condition because disability in individual socioeconomic aspects, difficulty treatment, recurrence, even epidemiologic research insufficient. Educating patients, general population, healthcare providers about important the...

health risks, especially HIV/AIDS. Although many organiza ons have programs that address gender, our mul -sectorial approach combining elements of development economics, public health, and other social sciences is unique. In addi on, our commitment to rigorous evalua ons ensures that the policies and global learning derived from our work are evidencebased. Our opera ng principle is to design pr...

Introduction / objectives Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an airways infection that must have developed more than 48 hours after the patient was intubated. Reducing mortality due to ventilator-associated pneumonia requires an organized process that guarantees early recognition of pneumonia and consistent application of the best evidencebased practices. The Ventilator Bundle is a series...

We introduce a new topological semantics for evidence, evidencebased belief, knowledge and learning. This setting generalizes (and in a sense improves on) the evidence models for belief due to van Benthem and Pacuit, as well as our own previous work on (a topological semantics for) Stalnaker’s doxasticepistemic axioms. We prove completeness, decidability and finite model property for the associ...

239 to be answered about fatigue and CFS. However, when seeing a patient with fatigue, GPs can now be more confident about who is at risk for chronicity and what should be done to prevent this. Even when chronicity does occur, there are evidencebased interventions available. Managing non-specific symptoms will always present challenges, but in the case of fatigue, the mounting evidence will hop...

BACKGROUND After parotid surgery, traumatized auriculotemporal, postganglionic, parasympathetic nerve fibers reinnervate the sweat glands and subcutaneous vessels resulting in gustatory sweating and facial flushing. Because Frey’s syndrome (FS) does not spontaneously resolve, multiple prevention and treatment strategies have been proposed. The literature supports evidencebased best practices fo...

Brunkard and colleagues provide a detailed assessment of direct mortality rates in Louisiana from Hurricane Katrina, the deadliest hurricane to strike the US Gulf Coast since 1928.1 The authors should be commended on their efforts because this solidly contributes to the evidencebased literature, but the scope of this examination needs to be expanded if we are to calculate the true human cost of...

provides. This is critical, because, based upon the best The vast amount of information and research available in dentistry engenders an immense challenge for dentists to manage patients. The future of dental practice rests on the ability of professionals to learn essential strategies for reliably accessing and evaluating the most current and valid research development for the benefit of each i...

One of the unfortunate side consequences of evidencebased medicine (EBM) is that sometimes there is no escaping how small the benefit of any individual treatment may seem. In the “days of the giants,” doctors saved lives; now we can consult league tables that bloodlessly inform us how many patients—10, 50, or 200—must receive a treatment to avert even a single bad outcome,1 EBM’s venerable numb...

C ystic fibrosis–related diabetes (CFRD) is the most common comorbidity in subjects with cystic fibrosis (CF). A consensus conference on CFRD was cosponsored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), the American Diabetes Association (ADA), and the Pediatric Endocrine Society (PES) in September 2009. The committee’s evidencebased recommendations for clinical management of CFRD are published in t...