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1 online resource (xv, 112 pages) Based on a major systematic review from international centres this concise text discusses the benefits of managing stroke patients in specialised units compared to management outside the hospital. It provides invaluable information in the most effective management for this chronically disabled sector Includes bibliographical references and index Print version record Cover -- Contents -- Authorship -- Contributors -- Foreword by Iain Chalmers -- Preface -- 1 The stroke unit story -- History of stroke unit care and its evaluation -- Early studies -- Definitions of a stroke unit -- Stroke intensive care units -- Later developments -- The demands of evidence based practice -- 2 How should we evaluate our interventions? -- Levels of evidence -- Sources of error -- Systematic error (bias) -- Random error -- Design of a reliable stroke unit trial -- Why randomised trials may not be enough -- Systematic reviews of randomised trials -- Conduct of systematic reviews -- Sources of bias in systematic reviews -- Interpretation of systematic reviews -- 3 Assembling evidence about stroke units -- Formulating the stroke unit question -- Defining the intervention -

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Author

Peter Langhorne; Martin Dennis; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

London: BMJ Books

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780470760215

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Nursing, Medicine