Refractive Surgery
Refractive Surgery Patrick T. Yang MD Louis E. Probst MD Clara C. Chan MD, FRCSC, FACS Refractive surgery has at least two unique characteristics when compared with the other subspecialties…
Biostatistics
Biostatistics Simon Hollands MD, MSc (Epid) Sanjay Sharma MD, MS (Epid), FRCSC, MBA Hussein Hollands MD, FRCSC, MSc (Epid) Introduction In Chapter 1 various study designs were discussed in order…
Health Economics
Health Economics Hussein Hollands MD, FRCSC, MSc (Epid) Sanjay Sharma MD, MS (Epid), FRCSC, MBA Introduction Economic evaluation in medicine has the potential to greatly influence policy decisions in both…
Clinical Epidemiology
Clinical Epidemiology Hussein Hollands MD, FRCSC, MSc (Epid) Simon Hollands MD, MSc (Epid) Sanjay Sharma MD, MS (Epid), FRCSC, MBA Introduction It is now commonplace for physicians and patients to…
Introduction to Outcome Analysis and Office-Based Clinical Research
Introduction to Outcome Analysis and Office-Based Clinical Research Richard M. Rosenfeld The American psychiatrist Philip Bonnet once noted, “The patient is always the ultimate source of knowledge.” Consequently, every clinical…
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy Jerome S. Schwartz Gady Har-El Frank DiPillo Chemotherapy, the management of disease with chemical substances, is used to manage primary as well as recurrent cancers. It can be used…
Radiation Therapy
Radiation Therapy Jerome S. Schwartz Gady Har-El Hassan Aziz Radiation therapy is based on directed ionizing radiation used to manage malignant and, occasionally, benign tumors. Radiation therapy can be used…
Occupational Medicine
Occupational Medicine Rhoda Wynn Andrew C. Goldman Occupational and environmental medicine is a specialty that focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of diseases related to the workplace and environment….
Pain Management
Pain Management Joshua Greenspan Pain is an important phenomenon in many otolaryngologic disorders. During the last 10 years, treatment of these disorders has improved greatly through cooperative arrangements with physicians…
Antimicrobial Therapy in Otolaryngology
Antimicrobial Therapy in Otolaryngology Marina Boruk Richard M. Rosenfeld One-fourth of all Americans who seek medical care do so because of an infectious disease. At least 150 million courses of…
