Some would argue that management and medicine, especially psychiatry, have a great deal in common. For a reasonable chance of success both require a high level of knowledge, skills in working with people and positive attitudes. Both also require knowledge and skills to be applied in complicated situations where there is no 'right' answer. Evidencebased practice is possible in management as well...

In the current health care environment, nurse clinicians must work “faster and smarter” making complex decisions on almost a continual basis. Evidencebased knowledge and standardized guides, such as clinical algorithms, can support clinical nursing decisions, however; effective real-time access is limited. This paper outlines research addressing this problem. In this research, current clinical ...

Empirical research studies are the principal mechanism through which the software engineering research community studies and learns from software engineering practice. The focus on empirical studies has increased significantly in the past decade, more or less coinciding with the emergence of evidencebased software engineering, an idea that was proposed in 2004. As a consequence, the software en...

Many readers of this book will recall a time when the predominant view within psychiatry was that talking therapies were not recommended for people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The past 10 years have seen a rapid expansion of an evidence base that has overturned this traditional view. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for schizophrenia is now recommended as part of routine clinical practice ...

The number of radiological studies performed annually, including ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has been increasing dramatically. This trend is influenced by several factors, including an aging population with multiple comorbidities and a higher number of overall studies obtained per patient and/or per time period (1). More than ever before, rad...

Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Cough Cough may be characterized as acute (lasting less than three weeks), subacute (lasting three to eight weeks), or chronic (persisting beyond eight weeks).2 Acute cough may develop because of viral upper respiratory tract infection (the most common cause), acute bacterial sinusitis, exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), allergic rhin...

Vulvodynia is a prevalent and highly distressing disorder, with major consequences for interpersonal and psychologic well-being. Due to the high level of psychologic distress commonly associated with the disorder, as well as the absence of evidencebased guidelines for clinical practice, a multinational consensus conference on the topic of vulvodynia was convened. The first National Institutes o...

Detecting the evidence of diabetes mellitus in pregnancy is a major challenge as the condition is associated with diverse range of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. Women diagnosed to have GDM are at increased risk of future diabetes predominantly type 2 DM as are their children. Thus GDM offers an important opportunity for the development, testing and implementation of clinical strategie...

We aimed to develop quality checklists for observational non-therapeutic studies. Based on a systematic review of current practices of quality assessment of observational studies, collaborating co-authors from Evidencebased Practice Centers and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed a new checklist for studies examining incidence and prevalence of chronic conditions, evaluated...