How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine /
Trisha Greenhalgh.
- 4th ed.
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : 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 9781444334364 1444334360
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Medical literature--Evaluation. Medicine--Research--Evaluation. Evidence-based medicine. Evidence-Based Practice. Journalism, Medical. Research.