HSC 3211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cervical Screening, Hpv Vaccines, Antihypertensive Drug
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Method of integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available evidence from s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)ati(cid:272) (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h a(cid:374)d patie(cid:374)t"s values and expectations: clinical expertise. Clinical skills and judgment needed to be able to determine whether evidence applies to the patient: current best evidence. Up-to-date information from relevant, valid clinical research regarding effects and potential for harm of various interventions, accuracy of diagnostic/screening interventions and predictive power of prognostic factors. Replaces old with new (more powerful, accurate, efficacious, safe: patient values and expectations. Central role in determining whether to use intervention: definitions of: accurate, valid, reliable, precision. Reliable: consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted. Precision: the quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate. Basic co(cid:374)cepts i(cid:374) preve(cid:374)tive healthcare (cid:894)jekel"s chapter 1(cid:1008)(cid:895) 3. terminology in preventive healthcare: prevention, risk factors and etiology complications and sequelae, disease and disability and illness, clinical trials and field trials.
