TY - BOOK AU - Greenhalgh,Trisha TI - How to read a paper: the basics of evidence-based medicine SN - 9781405139762 (pbk.) : AV - RC48 U1 - 616.0072 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Malden, Mass., Oxford PB - Blackwell KW - Evidence-based medicine KW - Medical literature KW - Evaluation KW - Medicine KW - Research KW - Evidence-Based Medicine KW - Reading N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005031701.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2005031701-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2005031701-d.html ER -