Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): cariostatic agents, community dentistry, community health planning, community health services, decision making, dental caries, evidencebased medicine, facial injuries, fluoridation, intervention studies, meta-analysis, mouth protectors, oral health, pharyngeal neoplasms, pit and fissure sealants, practice guidelines, preventive dentistry, preventive health servi...

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): cariostatic agents, community dentistry, community health planning, community health services, decision making, dental caries, evidencebased medicine, facial injuries, intervention studies, mouth protectors, oral health, pharyngeal neoplasms, pit and fissure sealants, practice guidelines, preventive dentistry, preventive health services, public health dentistry,...

Problem statement The research carried out aimed to encourage evidencebased cost-effective pharmaceutical prescribing, reduce medicine related adverse reactions, improve patient quality of life and reduce pharmaceutical wastage. Prescribing data was evaluated and interventions were subsequently developed in an attempt to improve pharmaceutical prescribing by General Practitioners (GPs) across a...

The utilization of evidence-based practice in nursing is a relatively new phenomenon. Although the medical profession has worked toward evidence-based medicine for nearly two decades, the nursing profession has executed evidence-based practice only since the late 1990s (Jennings & Loan, 2001). The primary goal of evidence-based practice is to improve decision making about patient interventions ...

INTRODUCTION The increased access to therapeutic information through the Internet has contributed to the increased use of Complementary or Alternative Medicine (CAM). In 1992, Congress set up the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defined CAM as: “Health Care practices outside the realm of conventional medicine, which are ...

CRTS: A type system for representing clinical recommendations Abstract Background: Clinical guidelines and recommendations are the driving wheels of the evidencebased medicine (EBM) paradigm, but these are available primarily as unstructured text and are generally highly heterogeneous in nature. This significantly reduces the dissemination and automatic application of these recommendations at t...

The practice of medicine is becoming increasingly evidencebased and clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are necessary for advancing evidence-based medicine (EBM). We hypothesize that machine learning methods can play an important role in learning CPGs automatically from data . Automatically induced CPGs can then be used for further manual refinement and deployment, for automated guideline compl...

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One of the unfortunate side consequences of evidencebased medicine (EBM) is that sometimes there is no escaping how small the benefit of any individual treatment may seem. In the “days of the giants,” doctors saved lives; now we can consult league tables that bloodlessly inform us how many patients—10, 50, or 200—must receive a treatment to avert even a single bad outcome,1 EBM’s venerable numb...

Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk commonly known as bhringraj. It is mainly found spreading easily in moist grounds and is widely used for its nutritional values all over the world. The plant is used to treat different diseases in human in traditional medicine. The important pharmacological activities are hepatoprotection, antibacterial, analgesic, antidiabetic hair growth, etc. This paper explains the e...