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edited by William Feldman, MD, FRCPC, 466 pp, $89.95, ISBN 1-55009-087-9, Hamilton, Ontario, BC Decker Inc, 2000.

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:1279.

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The rationale for practicing evidence-based medicine (EBM) is rooted in the explosion of health care research and the importance of physicians continually incorporating this new information into practice. The ability to practice EBM has been aided by the dramatic improvements in information technology made during the past decade. The adaptation of explicit EBM principles by pediatricians has been slower than by our colleagues in family medicine or internal medicine. With several recent publications of texts on EBM for pediatricians, including the most recent by Dr William Feldman, this trend is clearly changing.

The text is organized into 23 chapters, each dealing with common problems in pediatrics, from health maintenance visits to cardiovascular problems, learning disabilities, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Each chapter is written by contributors who have expertise in the respective specific area and are able to cover a number of aspects related to that area. For example, the chapter "Problems . . . [Full Text of this Article]