How to read a paper:the basics of evidence- based medicine
Type of publication
Books
Language
eng
Physical description
xvii, 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Publisher
4th ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
ISBN
9781444334364
Сall number
R118.6 .G74 2010
Location
Medical library
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject
medical literature medical literature evaluation research in medicine evidence-based medicine evidence-based practice medical journalism
Genre
Textbooks/Оқулықтар/Учебная литература
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
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 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
