Objective To compare the strengths and limitations of cardiovascular risk scores available for clinicians in...

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Heart failure is a syndrome resulting from a structural or functional cardiac disorder. For...

Background: Pharmaceutical companies spent $57.5 billion on pharmaceutical promotion in the United States in 2004....

The phases of research used to evaluate new drugs provide a useful reference point for...

Diagnostic tests—whether clinical signs, imaging, or laboratory tests—are imperfect: there is always a possibility that...

Objectives: To assess the accuracy in diagnosing heart failure of clinical features and potential primary...

Background The need to improve doctors' access to health care by reducing the barriers they...

It is now accepted wisdom by regulators, purchasers, journal editors, and clinicians that the true...

Objective: To identify sustainable governance arrangements for health care organisations undertaking integrated health service delivery...

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This is an updated version of an original check unit on evidence based medicine...

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Acute respiratory infections may be classified in several different ways: by their symptoms...

Evidence based medicine (EBM) changes the way medicine is practised by integrating individual clinical expertise...

Background
Bronchiolitis is a serious, potentially life-threatening respiratory illness commonly affecting young babies. It is most...

A review was performed to determine the evidence base for scrub typhus indirect immunofluorescence assay...

Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels are simple and objective measures of cardiac function. These measurements...

Background
In patients with unstable angina and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (UA/NSTEMI) two strategies are possible:...

Case history
SW, 21 years of age, presented for a prescription for her salbutamol puffer....

Background: Atrial fibrillation in the elderly is common and potentially life threatening. The classical sign...

Objective To assess how well B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) predicts prognosis in patients with heart...

The objective of this study is to determine if a Chagas disease protocol starting with...

BACKGROUND Brachytherapy is a promising treatment for prostate cancer as it may have reduced rates...

Why do we still use ineffective treatments? One reason is that our expectations for the...

Background The diagnosis of heart failure is difficult, with both overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis occurring commonly...

It is easy to dismiss coughs and colds as 'trivial' however they cause a significant...

Trying to sort out which patients have a relatively simple problem that will resolve spontaneously...

BACKGROUND Anaemia is often an incidental finding or is discovered when patients present with nonspecific...

Background. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer is controversial. Demand for PSA testing is...

Recently the Australian Minister for Health, the Hon Kay Patterson, announced that Australia is purchasing...

Clinicians are taught masses of facts, but not how to use them in the messy...

[Excerpt] What we will do here is set out some models of disease, and then...

This paper proposes a method to simplify a computational model from logistic regression for clinical...