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How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine
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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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- Creator
- Trisha Greenhalgh
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- Language
- English
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- Fourth edition
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
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- xvii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781444334364, 1444334360
- OCLC
- ocn477052204
- 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
Subjects
- Medical literature -- Evaluation.
- Medicine -- Research -- Evaluation.
- Evidence-based medicine.
- Evidence-Based Practice.
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- Journalism, Medical.
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- Research.
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