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Contents: October 2006, Volume 11, Number 5   [Index by Author]       Other Issues:

Purpose and procedure        EBM notebook        Therapeutics        Diagnosis        Aetiology        Resource review        Additional articles abstracted in ACP Journal Club        Other articles noted        Glossary

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Purpose and procedure:

Purpose and procedure

Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 129. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.129 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EBM notebook:

Jottings . . .

THE EDITORS
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 130. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.130 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Making sense of diagnostic tests likelihood ratios

Rafael Perera and Carl Heneghan
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 130-131. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.130-a [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simplified calculations using likelihood ratios

John G Sotos
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 132. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.132 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Why is evidence-based medicine important?

Paul Glasziou
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 133-135. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.133 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Evidently...

Richard Lehman
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 136. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.136 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Therapeutics:

Telephone care was more effective than standard care for smoking cessation in daily smokers

Tim Lancaster (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 137. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.137 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Combined budesonide and formoterol for maintenance and relief provided better asthma control than budesonide for maintenance and terbutaline for relief

Bernard Adelsberg (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 138. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.138 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Addition of salmeterol to usual asthma pharmacotherapy may increase respiratory related deaths or life threatening experiences

Randolph J Lipchik (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 139. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.139 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review: vaccines prevent influenza and influenza-like illness in healthy children >2 years of age

James Y Paton (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 140. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.140 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review: antiviral agents reduce the risk of influenza in healthy adults and alleviate symptoms faster than placebo

Joanne M Langley (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 141. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.141 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Delivery of 100%, 40%, and blow-by humidity did not differ for change in croup scores in children with moderate croup

Peter C Wyer (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 142. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.142 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clopidogrel plus aspirin did not differ from aspirin alone for reducing MI, stroke, and CV death in high risk atherothrombosis

Kenneth A Ballew (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 143. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.143 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review: ACE inhibitors delay microalbuminuria in diabetes without nephropathy and reduce mortality in diabetic nephropathy

Philip A McFarlane (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 144. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.144 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review: the renoprotective effects of ACE inhibitors and ARBs independent of blood pressure control are uncertain

Catherine Clase and Amit X Garg (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 145. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.145 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laparoscopic surgery was better than an intensive non-surgical intervention for weight loss in mild to moderate obesity

Raj Padwal (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 146. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.146 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review: behaviour therapy is effective for insomnia

Claudia Beghe (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 147. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.147 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Black cohosh and St John’s wort reduced climacteric and depressive symptoms

Angela M Cheung (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 148. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.148 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Calcium did not prevent fractures in elderly women

Sophie A Jamal (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 149. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.149 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review: sparse evidence supports lifestyle modifications for reducing symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease

Sachin Wani and Prateek Sharma (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 150. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.150 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review: topical quinolones are better than systemic antibiotics for chronic suppurative otitis media at up to 2 weeks

Jørgen Lous (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 151. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.151 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diagnosis:

Response to a 2 week continuous positive airway pressure trial accurately identified patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome

Pawan Sikka (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 152. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.152 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review: computed tomographic colonography is accurate for medium and large colorectal polyps and cancer

Michael J Solomon, Sarah J Lord, and Silke Walleser (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 153. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.153 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Albumin to creatinine ratio in 2 random urine samples was an accurate screening test for albuminuria in diabetic pregnancies

Chris L Bryson and Lorien Dalrymple (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 154. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.154 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review: magnetic resonance imaging alone is of limited usefulness in diagnosing multiple sclerosis

Brian G Weinshenker (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 155. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.155 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aetiology:

Physical exertion at work during pregnancy did not increase risk of preterm delivery or fetal growth restriction

Ted Haines and Bernadette Stringer (commentator)
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 156. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.156 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Resource review:

Tugwell P, Shea B, Boers M, et al, editors. Evidence-based rheumatology. London: Blackwell BMJ Books, 2003.

Ricardo Riera
Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 157. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.157 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Additional articles abstracted in ACP Journal Club:

Additional articles abstracted in ACP Journal Club

Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 158. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.158 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Other articles noted:

Other articles noted

Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 159-160. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.159 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ Comprehensive List October 2006]  

Glossary:

Glossary

Evid Based Med 2006; 11: 159. doi:10.1136/ebm.11.5.159a [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]