Overview
- Provides useful insight to anyone needing to assess or execute any kind of clinical study
- Based on trials’ successes and shortcomings and shows how they affected the currently used guideline in rheumatology
- Offers a multifaceted approach, from interpreting data to trial design, from analysis to presentation and publication of data
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Buy print copy
About this book
It is imperative that health professionals caring for patients with rheumatic diseases understand how to correctly interpret evidence in their field, taking into account the merits and shortcomings of available data. Understanding Evidence-Based Rheumatology offers a practical assessment of criteria, drugs, trials, and registries and provides useful tools for successfully interpreting this data. The book introduces readers to basic analysis of trial design, statistics and application of data through no-nonsense, easy-to-follow insights. Using numerous examples, chapters outline the difficulties physicians encounter when measuring disease activity in rheumatology and offer strategies for systematically approaching these situations. Ethical issues in study design and reporting are examined and the book closes with a summary of future directions for scientific and clinical studies in rheumatology.
Understanding Evidence-Based Rheumatology is an invaluable resource for trainees, clinicians and scientists, preparing them with the necessary tools to correctly gather evidence and shed light on the difficult practice of rheumatology.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (12 chapters)
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This book details how to correctly use and interpret evidence-based medicine in the practice of rheumatology. … The book is written for rheumatologists, rheumatology fellows, and other physicians who take care of patients with rheumatic diseases. The authors are rheumatologists. … This book focuses on an essential topic for every physician assessing and treating patients with rheumatological disease.” (Maryam Pourpaki, Doody’s Book Reviews, January, 2015)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hasan Yazici, MD, Professor of Medicine
Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
Yusuf Yazici, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Emmanuel Lesaffre, PhD
Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
and
L-Biostat, K.U.Leuven
Leuven, Belgium.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Evidence-Based Rheumatology
Book Subtitle: A Guide to Interpreting Criteria, Drugs, Trials, Registries, and Ethics
Editors: Hasan Yazici, Yusuf Yazici, Emmanuel Lesaffre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08374-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08373-5Published: 10 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34269-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08374-2Published: 29 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Rheumatology, Internal Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general