Gained in translation: evidence-based medicine meets pediatric psychopharmacology.
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) represents a powerful model for clinicians to translate everyday clinical tasks of finding and applying scientific literature into explicit and systematic steps. This article uses a question about treating adolescent depression to illustrate this approach in the context of a particular patient and his family. By helping the clinician apply population data to the 'bedside', EBM can supplement information from individual patient narratives and can facilitate informed decisions.
Srihari
Vinod
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Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06508, USA.
Martin
Andrés
A
D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011600:Psychopharmacology / Q000379:methods*