PMID: 20646598Jul 22, 2010Paper

Evidenced-based clinical practice of interventional therapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma:2-year follow-up results in 59 cases

Zhonghua yi xue za zhi
Bao-guo LiHai-tao Wang

Abstract

To explore the methods of evidence-based medicine to determine objectives and evaluate the efficacy of interventional therapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. Clinical questions were raised after a thorough evaluation of the status of interventional therapy. The term of evidence based medicine methods was searched in EBSCO, Cochrane library, Medline (January 1990-January 2007), ACP Journal Club (January 1991-January 2007) and Sumsearch. The searching subjects were hepatocellular carcinoma, interventional therapy, systematic review and meta-analysis etc. Based upon an analysis of the searching results, rational evidence based interventional therapy regimes were made. The survival benefit was studied by comparing with the empirical counterpart of the same period and with the same inclusion criteria. Data and Kaplan-Meier survival analyses were conducted by SPSS version 16.0 software. Nine randomized controlled clinical trials related to clinical questions and three systematic reviews were retrieved. A total of 119 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma were included. The evidence-based interventional therapy was performed in 59 cases and empirical interventional therapy in other 60 cases. The 2-year follow-up results confirmed t...Continue Reading

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