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9780727915788

How to Read a Paper: Basics Ebm

  • ISBN13:

    9780727915788

  • ISBN10:

    0727915789

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary

In this lucid, readable book Trisha Greenhalgh provides the basics of evidence based medicine: how to find a medical research paper, assess it for its scientific validity, and where relevant, put the findings into practice.Written for anyone, medically qualified or not, who wishes to understand and apply evidence based medicine, How to Read a Paper makes seemingly obscure concepts clear and relevant, using practical examples and considering all the main types of research paper.This book is a comprehensive introduction to the usefulness and potential applications of evidence based medicine in the clinical setting.

Table of Contents

Why read papers at all?
Searching the literature Getting your bearings
What is the paper about?
Assessing methodological quality Statistics for the non-statistician Papers which report trials Papers which report diagnostic or screening tests
Papers which summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
Papers which tell you what to do (guidelines)
Papers which tell you what things cost (economic analyses)
Papers which go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
Implementing evidence based practice
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