Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry

by Gregory E. Gray MD PhD

Overview

Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry (EBP) is a must-have resource for informed decision-making in psychiatric practice today. This single, easy-to-use reference will enable practitioners to find answers to clinical questions, critically appraise articles, and apply the results of their findings to patients.

This practical handbook provides quick access to EBP theories, tools, and methods. Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry is a one-stop reference for using the literature to improve patient outcomes. Features include: • Practical -- Filled with how-to information, Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry outlines the latest techniques for accessing, assessing, and interpreting the literature.• Easy to use -- Includes many tables of essential websites for finding reliable information on the Internet, best-practice strategies for searching the medical literature.

Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry fills an important role as the first EBP text for teaching residents, who are now required to develop such skills to meet the ACGME "practice-based learning and improvement" core competency. Special features for pedagogical use include suggestions for teaching EBP in residency programs, profuse examples from the psychiatric literature, and worksheets for the critical appraisal of clinical trials, diagnostic tests, epidemiologic studies, studies of prognosis, and more.

Whether for self-study or use in residency programs, Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry is the best resource available to help practitioners apply current research findings to their work with patients.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585626960
Publisher:	American Psychiatric Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/20/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	18 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gregory E. Gray, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Director of the Center for Mental Health Research and Clinical Epidemiology at Charles R. Drew University in Los Angeles; Chief of Psychiatry at King/Drew Medical Center; Medical Director of the Augustus Hawkins Mental Health Center; and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Concise Guides SeriesPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction to evidence-based medicineChapter 2. The 5-step evidence-based medicine modelChapter 3. Asking answerable questionsChapter 4. Searching for answersChapter 5. Clinical trialsChapter 6. Systematic reviews and meta-analysesChapter 7. Clinical practice guidelinesChapter 8. Diagnostic testsChapter 9. Surveys of disease frequencyChapter 10. Studies of risk or harmChapter 11. Studies of prognosisChapter 12. Evaluating your performanceChapter 13. Learning and practicing evidence-based psychiatryChapter 14. Teaching evidence-based medicine to psychiatry residentsAppendix A: GlossaryAppendix B: Statistical formulas and tables

What People are Saying About This

Ira Lesser

What a pleasant surprise to find this very readable book, which introduces the principles of evidence-based psychiatry while offering a brief primer on the basics of statistics, epidemiology, and how to critically read the literature. This concise guide manages to be both didactic and practical at the same time, and it transforms a potentially intimidating subject into one within the easy grasp of busy trainees, educators, and clinicians. Its publication is very timely, as the need to teach and learn evidence-based medicine has become an important component of resident education.

George Simpson

The Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry contains a wealth of information about how to obtain necessary information in order to make good clinical decisions. It is also a well written, easy to read appetizer for elementary statistics and well referenced for those who want a full meal. No matter what one thinks/feels about evidence-based psychiatry, the hierarchies of evidence are vital for everyone who reads a journal article. This book deals in an excellent fashion with the 'best evidence' but does not ignore individual, patient clinical problems. This book can be recommended highly to all who seek information about evidence-based psychiatry. It is a must for all directors of residency training.

Editorial Reviews

3 Stars from Doody

Reviewer: Michael Schrift, DO (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Description: This is a new and timely introduction to an important development in medicine — the need for physicians to be able to critically analyze the scientific literature and make clinical decisions based on this critical analysis. This book, written and edited by a psychiatric educator in the field, is a welcome aid to teaching evidenced-based psychiatry to psychiatric residents.
Purpose: The purpose of the book, according to the author, is to help psychiatrists and other mental health professionals become familiar "with the methods and philosophy of evidence-based medicine." The author has succeeded in producing a readable and accessible introduction to this important topic.
Audience: The intended audience, according to the author, are psychiatry residency directors, psychiatry residents, and practicing psychiatrists as well as other mental health practitioners "who wish to learn about evidence-based medicine on their own and incorporate evidence-based medicine into their daily practice."
Features: Topics covered include the "5-step evidence-based medicine model," how to develop answerable questions, how to search for answers, a review of clinical trial methodology, understanding systematic reviews and meta-analysis, the role of clinical guidelines in evidence-based practice, evaluating diagnostic tests, understanding of surveys, review of various types of studies of risk or harm, studies of prognosis, formulating clinical questions, where to learn and how to practice evidence-based psychiatry, and a very useful chapter for me on teaching evidence-based medicine to psychiatry residents. The book's appendixes include a glossary of terms and statistical formulas and tables. The index is quite helpful.
Assessment: This is a valuable and useful introduction to evidence-based psychiatry. Every psychiatry residency training director as well as every psychiatric resident needs to be familiar with the material in this excellent book. I highly recommend it!

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