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Wanderley Marques Bernardo

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PubMed2004

[Evidence based clinical practice. Part III -- Critical appraisal of clinical research].

Evidence based health care begins with a clinical question and the search on data bases to retrieve the relevant information, that was the issue of two preceding articles of this series. At present it will be discussed how to critically appraise the medical literature using the clinical epidemiological methodology. Clinical research aims to develop diagnostic and therapeutic procedures measuring association and causality between the exposure and outcome. In this case the exposures are signs, symptoms, laboratorial or image exam, and therapy intervention. It is a mistake to take surrogate end-points instead of clinical outcomes. The main types of clinical study design are diagnostic, prognostic, therapeutic and harm/etiology. Experimental, physiologic and animal studies are useful for the medical undergraduate education, but do not contribute with clinical decisions. The study designs are classified according with the presence of a control group, patient's follow-up, and therapy interventions. The evidence hierarchy was done by the previous characteristics and the presence of systematic bias. Systematic reviews are stronger than the primary observational studies and are on the top when they revised randomized clinical trial. Since 1998 the proportion of evidence based practice guidelines was increasing compared with systematic reviews or other types of practice guidelines, although the former still are in a few numbers. The article critical appraisal must answer the clinical question, and need to have consistent study design and bias under control. In conclusion we ought to offer methodological actualization to interested physicians and put the information already critically assessed on evidence-based practice guidelines.

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PubMed2004

[Evidence based clinical practice. Part 1--well structured clinical questions].

Clinical decisions in daily practice, to resolve patient's problem, are usually based at the conscious use of the available information, through explicit determined rules. Evidence based clinical practice recognize the explicit and tacit knowledge, understanding that it is impossible all the aspects of professional competence become explicit. The doubt becomes part of the decision process, identifying initially the unconscious component involved and after the explicit knowledge used. When we make a structured clinical question with a possible answer, it is necessary to remember that the doubt can be related to basics and of definition aspects of the disease or related to the patient's manager, like diagnose, treatment and prognosis. Along our medical life, both types of question are present, with proportional change as the experience increase along the clinical practice. The process to find an appropriate answer to the doubt, came out at patient's care, depends on how the parts of this process will be structured. The recommended form is known by PICO abbreviation, that means: P: patient or population, I: intervention or indicator, C: comparison or control and O: outcome, or the answer expected found at the scientific information bases. This is the first basic need to a successful search, and the second need is to find the key words that better describe each of the four components of the questions. Without this caution, the search at compute databases results in absence of information or in a lot of information that it is not related to our interest.

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PubMed2003

[Pulmonary embolic ischemia: clinical and experimental aspects].

Pulmonary ischemia is usually related with embolics mechanisms, and this mechanic artery occlusion is not always followed by severe ischemic consequences, because the bronchial circulation changes supply the areas without blood flow. However, small artery vascular remodeling occurs, related to persistent high pulmonary pressure levels, mainly in the chronic pulmonary thromboembolism. Experimental models have been produced to study the relation-ship between mechanic artery occlusion, pulmonary hypertension and vascular remodeling, however, more systematic evaluation is necessary to understand such a these relation-ship, in the ischemic and not ischemic lung parenchyma.

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[Evidence-based clinical practice. Part II--Searching evidence databases].

The inadequacy of most of traditional sources for medical information, like textbook and review article, do not sustained the clinical decision based on the best evidence current available, exposing the patient to a unnecessary risk. Although not integrated around clinical problem areas in the convenient way of textbooks, current best evidence from specific studies of clinical problems can be found in an increasing number of Internet and electronic databases. The sources that have already undergone rigorous critical appraisal are classified as secondary information sources, others that provide access to original article or abstract, as primary information source, where the quality assessment of the article rely on the clinician oneself . The most useful primary information source are SciELO, the online collection of Brazilian scientific journals, and Medline, the most comprehensive database of the USA National Library of Medicine, where the search may start with use of keywords, that were obtained at the structured answer construction (P.I.C.O.), with the addition of boolean operators "AND", "OR", "NOT". Between the secondary information sources, some of them provide critically appraised articles, like ACP Journal Club, Evidence Based Medicine and InfoPOEMs, others provide evidences organized as online texts, such as "Clinical Evidence" and "UpToDate", and finally, Cochrane Library are composed by systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials. To get studies that could answer the clinical question is part of a mindful practice, that is, becoming quicker and quicker and dynamic with the use of PDAs, Palmtops and Notebooks.

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