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9780727914477

Evidence-Based Health Care Workbook For individual and group learning

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  • ISBN13:

    9780727914477

  • ISBN10:

    0727914472

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-11-22
  • Publisher: BMJ Books
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Summary

Based on Trisha Greenhalghs course on teaching evidence based health care, this workbook can be used as a stand alone self learning book, either for groups or individuals. The different units covering areas such as decision analysis and diagnostic testing each contain a published paper with exercises for the user, and critical appraisal checklists. It will act as a complement to the best-selling How to Read a Paper

Author Biography

Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care and Director, Healthcare Innovation and Policy Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments viii
Using this book in learning and teaching
1(10)
The principles and practice of evidence based health care
11(26)
Approaching the literature
37(22)
Papers that report drug trials (randomised controlled trials of therapy)
59(20)
Numbers needed to treat, odds ratios, and confidence intervals
79(10)
Papers that address prognosis or harm (cohort studies)
89(8)
Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
97(14)
Papers that summarise other papers (systematic review and meta-analysis)
111(20)
Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
131(14)
Papers that analyse very rare events (case control studies)
145(8)
Notes for tutors 153(4)
Model answers for checklists 157(6)
Index 163

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