Year of the Child
Year of the Child is a scholarly work, published in 2005 in ''Archives of Disease in Childhood''. The main subjects of the publication include affection, pediatrics, medicine, law, recreation, health care, nationality, declaration, and family medicine. Evidence based medicine implies that healthcare professionals are expected to base their practice on the best available evidence.This means that authors should acquire the necessary skills for appraising the medical literature, including the ability to understand and interpret the results of published articles.This article discusses in a simple, practical, 'non-statistician' fashion some of the important outcome measures used to report clinical trials comparing different treatments or interventions.Absolute and relative risk measures are explained, and their merits and demerits discussed.The article aims to encourage healthcare professionals to appreciate the use and misuse of these outcome measures and to empower them to calculate these measures themselves when, as is frequently the case, the authors of some original articles fail to present their results in a more clinically friendly format. . . . .