Key result
Clinical epidemiology methods appraise evidence quality to guide anesthesia and intensive care decisions.
Why the study?
The application of clinical epidemiology methods to anaesthesia and intensive care and the quality of evidence guiding clinical decisions and policy were explored.
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Design
Review of ten recent publications in anaesthesia and intensive care
Supports evidence appraisal via clinical epidemiology in anesthesia and ICU; leaves open effects on decisions without prospective validation.
This review concerns the application of the methods of clinical epidemiology to problems in anaesthesia and intensive care. It explores the quality of evidence to guide clinical decision-making and health policy provided by experimental and various non-experimental research designs. Ten recent publications in anaesthesia and intensive care are analysed to provide relevant examples.
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Rigg et al. (1999) studied this question. Clinical epidemiology methods can be applied to evaluate the quality of evidence from various research designs to guide clinical decision-making in anesthesia and intensive care.
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