Guidelines--are they useful?

• Antiepileptic drug (AED) guidelines are developed to improve medical decision making, to provide guidance and recommendation for patient management, to develop standards to judge or assess clinical practice, and to keep the cost-benefit ratio at an acceptable level. These guidelines are derived from evidence-based medicine (EBM), a four-tiered grading system that is used to analyze clinical trials and published experiments independent of clinical bias and experience. Although guidelines may not answer all questions it is critical that clinicians using them consider the available evidence, as well as the quality of the evidence, when incorporating the information in their decision making.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Neurologi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Neurology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Anticonvulsants

economics

therapeutic use

Clinical Trials as Topic

statistics & numerical data

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Epilepsy

drug therapy

economics

Evidence-Based Medicine

statistics & numerical data

Humans

Outcome Assessment (Health Care)

methods

Physician's Practice Patterns

economics

standards

Practice Guidelines as Topic

standards

Professional Practice

economics

standards

Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic

statistics & numerical data

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)