Retrospective review of surgical repair results in patients with cleft palate and lip has been conducted on the base of Gomel Regional Hospital. The obtained results revealed a change in surgical approach used to repair cleft palate and lip from single-stage methods to double-stage methods, which allow to achieve aesthetic and functional results better than single-stage methods. Necessity to improve management of patients with cleft palate and lip, which should include better cooperation of specialists form different specialties, has been reemphasized.
The purpose of article is the review of principles of evidence based medicine in surgery. A prominent aspect of evidence based medicine in surgery is definition of degree of reliability of the information.
The purpose of article is the review of principles of evidence based medicine and the meta-analysis. A prominent aspect of evidence based medicine is definition of degree of reliability of the information. Quantitative association of the given various clinical researches by means of the meta-analysis allows to receive results which cannot be received from separate clinical researches. Reading and studying of systematic reviews and results of the meta-analysis allows to be guided more effectively in a considerable quantity of published articles.
A prominent aspect of evidence based medicine is completeness and accuracy of data presentation. Article purpose is the short review of principles of evidence based medicine in the researches devoted to accuracy of diagnostic tests. Diagnostic tests are used in medicine to screen for diagnose, grade, and monitor the progression of disease. Diagnostic information is obtained from a multitude of sources, including sings, symptoms and special investigations. This article concentrates on the dimensions of study quality and the advantages of different summary statistics with logistic regression and ROC-analysis.
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