How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine / Trisha Greenhalgh.
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- 9781444334364 (pbk.) :
- 616.0072 22
- R118.6 .G74 2010
- WB 102.5
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Previous ed.: Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why read papers at all? -- Searching the literature -- Getting your bearings : what is this paper about? -- Assessing methodological quality -- Statistics for the non-statistician -- Papers that report trials of drug treatments and other simple interventions -- Papers that report trials of complex interventions -- Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests -- Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses) -- Papers that tell you what to do (guidelines) -- Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses) -- Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research) -- Papers that report questionnaire research -- Papers that report quality improvement case studies -- Getting evidence into practice.
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.
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