文档介绍：Evidence-based
Dermatology
Edited by Hywel Williams
Michael Bigby, Thomas Diepgen
Andrew Herxheimer, Luigi Naldi,
Berthold Rzany
Evidence-based
Dermatology
Evidence-based
Dermatology
Edited by
Hywel Williams
Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham, UK
Associate editors
Michael Bigby
Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Centre, Boston, USA
Thomas Diepgen
University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
Andrew Herxheimer
Cochrane Skin Group, UK
Luigi Naldi
Department of Dermatology, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy
Berthold Rzany
Centre for Evidence-based Medicine in Dermatology, Charité University Hospital, Humboldt
University, Berlin, Germany
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First published in 2003
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Contents
Contributors ix
Preface xv
Foreword xvii
Part 1: The concept of evidence-based dermatology 1
Editor: Andrew Herxheimer
1. The field and its boundaries 3
Luigi Naldi
2. The rationale for evidence-based dermatology 9
Hywel Williams and Michael Bigby
3. The role of the consumer in evidence-based dermatology 16
Andrew Herxheimer and Maxine Whitton
4. The Cochrane Skin Group 24
Tina Leonard, Finola Delamere and Dédée Murell
Part 2: The critical appraisal toolbox 33
Editor: Michael Bigby
5. Formulating well-built clinical qu