Evidence Based DermatologyEvidence-based thinking in clinical medicine has impacted greatly on the physician's approach to clinical care. In addition to promoting the understanding of the evidence-based philosophy, the authors have focused on some of the fundamentals in dermatology that need to be approached differently. Issues such as the interpretation of clinical research, disease-oriented evidence versus patient-care evidence, and the use of placebo are examined. This book introduces and encourages the concept of evidence-based patient care in dermatology. This is a growing area in dermatology, and this work presents the ideology and methodology of critical thinking and also the available evidence across the field. Evidence-Based Dermatology is aimed at both primary care physicians and dermatologists, encouraging disease management decisions to be based on the highest level of evidence. Evidence-Based Dermatology introduces and encourages the concept of evidence-based patient care in dermatology. Authored by a world renewed authors in Dermatology and incorporating a text with all ne four color design and images. This new edition explores disease mechanisms and treatments in greater depth and detail in order to provide more insight for the reader. |
Contents
Brian B Adams | 539 |
Ala laconi ChungHsuen Wu David J Rayhan | 654 |
Diane Turvy AllyKhan Somani Swetha Kandula | 739 |
CHAPTER 50 | 751 |
Julia Escandon and Robert S Kirsner | 815 |
Rajesh Balkrishnan | 882 |
CHAPTER 51 | 898 |
Treatment of Tinea Capitis | 923 |
| 86 | |
Treatment of Actinic Keratosis | 106 |
Alexandra B Kimball | 200 |
CHAPTER 20 | 284 |
Cell Carcinoma | 291 |
and Farzam Gorouhi | 301 |
CHAPTER 21 | 311 |
CHAPTER 5 | 317 |
CHAPTER 70 | 319 |
Sean W Carlson and Eliot N Mostow | 324 |
Treatment of Herpes Zoster | 337 |
Atopic Dermatitis | 349 |
CHAPTER 48 | 377 |
Carrie Kovarik | 444 |
Treatment of Kaposis Sarcoma | 452 |
CHAPTER 6 | 462 |
Christopher B Hansen and Richard D Sontheimer | 468 |
CHAPTER 7 | 483 |
Treatment of Psoriasis | 935 |
Donna Perry and Ardeshir Bayat | 943 |
CHAPTER 27 | 961 |
Berndt Stenberg | 969 |
Craig N Burkhart Craig G Burkhart | 970 |
Dean S Morrell | 1003 |
Cutaneous Manifestations | 1017 |
CHAPTER 28 | 1019 |
Treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis | 1029 |
CHAPTER 16 | 1055 |
CHAPTER 71 | 1063 |
and Najwa Somani | 1068 |
Kavita Mariwalla and Evan C Jones | 1095 |
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Common terms and phrases
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