Evidence based paediatrics: Evidence based well child care

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Evidence based paediatrics: Evidence based management of childhood obesity.

Evidence-Based ACL Reconstruction

There is controversy in the literature regarding a number of topics related to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)reconstruction. The purpose of this article is to answer the following questions: 1) Bone patellar tendon bone (BPTB) reconstruction or hamstring reconstruction (HR); 2) Double bundle or single bundle; 3) Allograft or authograft; 4) Early or late reconstruction; 5) Rate of return to sp...

Measuring Trends in Child Well-being: an Evidence-based Approach*

This paper first reviews the goals of the founding documents of the social indicators and quality-of-life movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It next describes the current state of knowledge with respect to the founding goals of this field. The focus then turns to the topic of measuring changes in child and youth well-being in the United States over the past few decades. In particular, the eviden...

Evidence-Based Child Health

I share Shamseer and Vohra's concern about publication bias in the leading medical journals. For example, in 1975 the American Journal of Medicine published a highly influential review on vitamin C and the common cold by Thomas Chalmers (1). When I became interested in the same topic, I was puzzled by the great discrepancy between the original trial reports and Chalmers' selection and descripti...