Optimal evidence-based clinical practice requires systematic summaries of the best
available evidence, including ratings of the quality of that evidence, and is facilitated by the …

RESUMO A implementação das melhores evidências científicas nos serviços de saúde
ainda não ocorre de forma satisfatória. Diante dessa problemática, o objetivo deste estudo …

Decision making around preventive health screening by family physicians, other health care
practitioners, and patients has become increasingly complex and controversial in recent …

To practice high quality healthcare, clinicians must be able to diagnose correctly, provide
preventative and treatment interventions based on the best available evidence, and ensure …

magnitude or effect size of the benefts and harms associated with preventive screening and
other health care management interventions, is fundamental to evidence-based decision …

Evidence-based medicine is predicated on the integration of best available research
evidence with clinical expertise and patient values to inform care. In medical research …

Background: Research activity represents an important process conducted to address an
issue in a precise and systematic manner. Data of this kind regarding the methodological …

This concept article introduces a transformative vision to reduce the population burden of
chronic disease by focusing on data integration, analytics, implementation and community …

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are nonparametric causal path diagrams that have
substantial utility as principled representations of disease and healthcare pathways, and of …

PURPOSE For patients with cancer and their doctors, prognosis is important for choosing
treatments and supportive care. Oncologists' life expectancy estimates are often inaccurate …