13-01-A

Officina Napoli Cochrane
Speech-language therapy in Europe: sharing good clinical practice
EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE IN
SPEECH – LANGUAGE THERAPY
M. Valeria Di Martino
Salvatore Panico
Tiziana Rossetto
valeria.dimartino@ospedalemonaldi.it
spanico@unina.it
tiziana.rossetto@libero.it
EBM
“The conscientious, explicit and
judicious use of current best evidence
in making decisions about the care of
individual patients. EBM practice
means integrating individual clinical
expertise with the best available
external clinical evidence from
systematic research” (Sackett et al.
1996)
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AGENDA
Introduction and results of the
search
¾ The need for EBM approach in the
clinical settings
¾ FLI and Officina Napoli Cochrane
projects
¾ Conclusions and proposals
¾
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FIRST SEARCH
Term used: “Speech and language therapy”
RESULTS:
PubMed: n. 12.442 studies
including 1185 reviews
Cochrane Library: n. 130 studies
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NEW SEARCH
PubMed : “Rehabilitation of speech and
language disorders AND outcome
assessment “
Cochrane Library: “Speech and language
therapy” – “voice disorders” –
“swallowing and speech therapy”
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TOTAL n. 918 studies
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Source: autors’ elaboration
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Source: autors’ elaboration
DATA BASE
Type of study
¾ Country of origin
¾ Subject
¾ Year of publication
¾
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TYPE OF STUDIES
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COCHRANE LIBRARY
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source: autors' elaboration
PubMed
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