an increasing number of asthmatic patients are attracted by complementary and and alternative medicine (cam). the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and describe the characteristics of cam use by children with asthma in a paediatric allergy clinic in istanbul, turkey.the parents of asthmatic children were invited to participate in a cross-sectional survey study. current asthma tre...

conclusions following a simple seven-part rule of healthy stomach will result in balanced gi function and a healthy body. properly consumption of recommended tpm herbal medicines could reinforce the stomach and a healthy gi system through preventive mechanisms. evidence acquisition a wide-ranging search in main tpm books and web engines was performed to compare preventive care in gastrointestin...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is described as ‘‘. . . the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine requires the integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.’’ More recently, this definition has b...

Patient data in health care have traditionally been used to support direct patient care. Although there is great potential in combining such data with genetic information from patients to improve diagnosis and therapy decisions (i.e. personalized medicine) and in secondary uses such as data mining, this is complex to realize due to technical, commercial and legal issues related with combining a...

Over the last two decades, evidence and systematic review have been the keystones of guideline development. Evidence-based medicine was defined by Sacket et al. as ‘‘the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients’’.1 This practice of evidencebased medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the ...

239 to be answered about fatigue and CFS. However, when seeing a patient with fatigue, GPs can now be more confident about who is at risk for chronicity and what should be done to prevent this. Even when chronicity does occur, there are evidencebased interventions available. Managing non-specific symptoms will always present challenges, but in the case of fatigue, the mounting evidence will hop...

The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign convened a workshop on 2nd February 2005 to draw up evidencebased recommendations for the management of respiratory problems in adults with muscle diseases. The strength of these recommendations was graded using the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) methodology (Table 1). Neurogenic conditions, neuromuscular junction disorders and myotonic dystro...

BACKGROUND After parotid surgery, traumatized auriculotemporal, postganglionic, parasympathetic nerve fibers reinnervate the sweat glands and subcutaneous vessels resulting in gustatory sweating and facial flushing. Because Frey’s syndrome (FS) does not spontaneously resolve, multiple prevention and treatment strategies have been proposed. The literature supports evidencebased best practices fo...

Brunkard and colleagues provide a detailed assessment of direct mortality rates in Louisiana from Hurricane Katrina, the deadliest hurricane to strike the US Gulf Coast since 1928.1 The authors should be commended on their efforts because this solidly contributes to the evidencebased literature, but the scope of this examination needs to be expanded if we are to calculate the true human cost of...