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ical Exam Prospective, blind parison to gold standard Cost Economic analysis Right methods is crucial Appraise evidences ? Measure – Objective: ? Survival ? Lab test ? Radiology – Subjective: ? Pain ? Symptoms External evidences ? Categories of Consensus In NCCN clinical guideline – Category 1: There is uniform NCCN consensus, based on highlevel evidence, that the remendation is appropriate. – Category 2: There is uniform NCCN consensus(or nonuniform NCCN consensusbut no major disagreement), based on lowerlevel evidence including clinical experience, that the remendation is appropriate. – Category 3: There is major NCCN disagreement that the remendation is appropriate. Appraise evidences ? Endpoint – alternative: ? relieve of symptom ? shrink of tumor – Gold Standard: ? cure ? prolong survival Not all the evidences are the same importance Hollingworth amp。244:3138 Flowchart of costeffectiveness at each level of TA hierarchy Technical Performance Diagnostic Performance Diagnostic Impact Therapeutic Impact Impact on Health Source of Medical Information ? Colleagues ? Conferences ? Drug Reps ? Textbooks ? Journals ? Inter/Patients Source of Medical Information ? Primary – MEDLINE, CBM ? Secondary – Guidelines, Cochrane Lib ? Much more likely (than personal search and critical appraisal) to be true ? Saves the clinician’s time – Textbook ? Others? – Conference – Institutional or personal experience Source of Medical Information ? Interest group or anization ? Commercial Company’s News or Brief ? Google, Yahoo! …… Open Mind and Be Very Carefully Quick Information ? Guidelines – Explicit evidencebased – Evidencebased – Researchbased (highly referenced) – Opinionbased – “expert consensus” National Guideline Clearinghouse ( Cancer Care Ontar