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How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine / Trisha Greenhalgh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiv, 229 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781405139762 (pbk.) :
  • 1405139765 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.0072 22
LOC classification:
  • RC48
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Contents:
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 drug trials -- 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 -- Getting evidence into practice.
Summary: 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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Previous ed.: London: BMJ, 2001.

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 drug trials -- 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 -- 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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