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Levels of evidence for interventions across different disciplines |
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| Study Type |
Internal Medicine[1] |
General Practice[2] |
Inpatient Pediatrics[5] |
Community Pediatrics[6] |
Emergency Pediatrics |
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| Level I Evidence (%) |
53 |
31 |
31 |
40 |
52 |
| Level II Evidence (%) |
29 |
50 |
44 |
7 |
5 |
| Level III Evidence (%) |
18 |
19 |
1 |
53 |
8 |
| No Intervention (%) |
0 |
0 |
24 |
0 |
36 |
| Sample Size (number of pts) |
109 |
101 |
142 |
247* |
262 |
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* although the number of patients included was 247, 629 individual "clinical actions" were studied | |||||
Waters et al. BMC Pediatrics 2006 6:26 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-6-26 |
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