Emergency Medicine Decision Making: Critical Issues in Chaotic Environments

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• Understanding the BasicsMedical Statistics1.Probability2.P values3.Confidence IntervalsKey Concepts4.Sensitivity and Specificity5.Predictive Values6.Likelihood Ratios7.The Risks of Relativity8.Number Needed to Treat9.Bias10.Spectrum Calculations11.ConfoundersThe Literature of Emergency Medicine12.The problems of the body of “Emergency Medicine Literature”13.The application of Emergency Medicine literature to Continuous CertificationTypes of Literature14.Textbooks15.Retrospective Trials16.Prospective Trials17.Meta-Analyses18.Integrative Studies19.Qualitative StudiesEvaluating an Article20.Internal Validity21.External ValidityFinding Information When Seconds Count22.Searching Medline23.Using the Internet24.Personal Databases25.Other SourcesMedical Decision Making in the ED26.Action and Testing Thresholds27.Disease Likelihood and Bayesian Analysis28.Weighing Treatment Benefits and Harm