It is an inexorable trend that evidence-based medicine (EBM) is being adopted at clinical medicine education in the 21st century. EBM neurology has been developing with the progress of the world of evidence-based medicine and clinical neurology. New requirements have been proposed in neurology education with the development of EBM. The adoption of EBM in modern clinical education will be a great influence: promoting the further development of neurology, cultivating talented doctors, and improving the quality of treatment.
This article reviews the progress, problems and future development of evidence-based neurology; introduces sources of clinical evidence and evidence-based recommendations on some common neurological disorders from the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. It promotes high quality clinical research to provide good evidence and the use of current best evidence in patient care.
The core idea of comparative effectiveness research (CER) refers to "study in the real-world" which can be considered as the extension of evidence-based medicine. So far CER has arouse wide concern. CER includes many intervention trials and observational studies, including systematic reviews/meta-analyses, effectiveness randomized controlled trials, and registry trials. Database is an important platform for CER. CER has better feasibility and can provide useful evidence for "real-world" decision-making. However, it also has limitations such as difficult control of confounding factors. It still needs to be further studied due to its immature methodological base. CER has been already applied in some neurological fields, with internationally-recommended research priorities for CER in neurology.
Brain injury after cardiopulmonary resuscitation is closely related to the survival rate and prognosis of neurological function of cardiac arrest (CA) patients. Recently, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) published a practice guideline which had updated the evaluation of different treatments for reducing brain injury following cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In order to master and transmit AAN 2017 practice guideline on reducing brain injury following cardiopulmonary resuscitation, this paper interprets the new AAN clinical practice guideline to assist Chinese clinicians for better studying the guideline.
This review describes the concept of artificial intelligence, introduces the working mechanism and the main structure of medical expert system, as well as the development history of medical expert system at home and abroad and its applications in the medical field. The concept of machine learning, commonly used algorithms and its clinical applications in medical diagnosis are briefly described. It mainly introduces the application of artificial intelligence in neurology. The advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence system in medical field are analyzed. Finally, the future of artificial intelligence in the medical field is forecasted.
Clinical trial, an important research method, plays a crucial role in the development of medicine. It provides important decision support for medical workers. Medical research proposal should be posted at clinical trial registries. Researchers should update original data and research results, which contributes to data sharing. Clinical trial registration can avoid repetitive research and make clinical trials more transparent and standardized. This paper briefly introduces the clinical trial registration, including the definition, the significance, the history, the scope of registration, the organization of registration, and some common problems in the process of registration. Taking the application of clinical trial registration in the field of neurological research as an example, the article describes the current application status of clinical trial registration and explores it’s value and deficiency in specific clinical research, to provoke the awareness on trial registration, which can help to improve the quality of clinical trials.
Objective To explore the teaching ability of the neurology refresher doctors by case teaching method combined with flipped classroom teaching mode. Methods The refresher doctors who were studying in the infection group of Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University between March 2019 and September 2020 were selected. According to the time of admission, the enrolled refresher doctors were divided into control group (grade 2019) and observation group (grade 2020). The control group adopted the traditional teaching mode, and the observation group adopted the case teaching method combined with the flipped classroom teaching mode. A self-designed questionnaire was used to compare the teaching ability of the two groups of refresher doctors. Results A total of 44 refresher doctors were included. Among them, there were 24 refresher doctors in the control group and 20 refresher doctors in the observation group. The self-evaluation of the teaching ability of the two groups of refresher doctors and the evaluation of their teaching ability by the teachers showed that, except for the item “enthusiasm for teaching and willingness to spend enough time to participate in the evaluation of teaching work” of humanistic quality (P>0.05), the observation group was better than the control group in professional knowledge, teaching ability, teaching methods and humanistic quality (P<0.05). Conclusions Through the case teaching method combined with flipped classroom teaching mode, the teaching ability of refresher doctors can be cultivated, which is helpful for training more high-quality doctors for the country and promoting the sustainable and coordinated development of medical education. However, the awareness and enthusiasm of the refresher doctors to teaching work need to be improved.