How to Read a Paper: the basics of evidence-based medicine

Greenhalgh, Trisha.

How to Read a Paper: the basics of evidence-based medicine - 4th ed. - Chichester; Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xvii, 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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.

9781444334364 1444334360

2009051037

101520861 DNLM


Medical literature--Evaluation.
Medicine--Research--Evaluation.
Evidence-based medicine.
Evidence-Based Practice.
Journalism, Medical.
Research.

R118.6 / .G74 2010

WA 20.5 / G821 2010

2010 H-033 WB 102.5 / G813h 2010