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Overview
Deals with evidence-based medicine, used by health care professionals and medical students worldwide. This third edition explains the meaning of critical appraisal and terms such as 'numbers needed to treat', 'how to search the literature', 'evaluate the different types of papers' and 'put the conclusions to clinical use'.
Book details
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248 pages
Illustrations: 13 illustrations
Height: 216mm
Width: 142mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9781405139762 (1405139765)
Publication date: 05 January 2006
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Country of publication: United Kingdom
Specialty: Epidemiology & medical statistics, Medical diagnosis
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"How to Read a Paper" is one of the bestselling texts on evidence-based medicine, used by health care professionals and medical students worldwide. Trisha Greenhalgh's ability to explain the basics of evidence-based medicine in an accessible and readable way means the book is an ideal introduction for all, from first year students to experienced practitioners. This is a text that explains the meaning of critical appraisal and terms such as 'numbers needed to treat', 'how to search the literature', 'evaluate the different types of papers' and 'put the conclusions to clinical use'. This third edition places more emphasis on patient perspectives, contains increased coverage of qualitative research in evidence-based medicine and also includes new information on literature sources and search mechanisms.
Contents
1 Why read papers at all? 2 Searching the literature 3 Getting your bearings: what is this paper about? 4 Assessing methodological quality 5 Statistics for the non-statistician 6 Papers that report drug trials 7 Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests 8 Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses) 9 Papers that tell you what to do (guidelines) 10 Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses) 11 Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research) 12 Papers that report questionnaire research 13 Getting evidence into practice Appendix 1 Checklists for finding, appraising and implementing evidence Appendix 2 Assessing the effects of an intervention Index
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