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01-01-2010 | Book Review
Guiding neurosurgery by evidence, Editor: B.E. Pollock
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-8055-8130-1 Karger
Authors:
Karsten Schöller, Jörg-Christian Tonn
Published in:
Acta Neurochirurgica
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Issue 1/2010
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Excerpt
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a growing movement that tries to overcome dogmatic approaches in medical care based on intuition and unsystematic clinical experience. For “Guiding Neurosurgery by Evidence” the editor Bruce Pollock has collaborated with another 21 well-known experts in neurosurgical subspecialties to give an overview of contemporary neurosurgical practise facing its scientific basis as evaluated by evidence-based medicine criteria. The hardcover book, volume 19 of the series “Progress in Neurological Surgery” edited by L. Dade Lunsford, is divided into ten chapters. …