| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
How to Read a Paper; Table of Contents; Foreword to the First Edition; Preface to the First Edition: do you need to read this book?; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Acknowledgements; 1 Why read papers at all?; 2 Searching the literature; 3 Getting your bearings - what is this paper about?; 4 Assessing methodological quality; 5 Statistics for the non-statistician; 6 Papers that report trials of drug treatments and other simple interventions; 7 Papers that report trials of complex interventions; 8 Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests |
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9 Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)10 Papers that tell you what to do (guidelines); 11 Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses); 12 Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research); 13 Papers that report questionnaire research; 14 Papers that report quality improvement case studies; 15 Getting evidence into practice; Appendix 1 Checklists for finding, appraising and implementing evidence; Appendix 2 Assessing the effects of an intervention; Index; |
| Summary |
How to Read a Paper describes the different types of clinical research reporting, and explains how to critically appraise the publications. The book provides the tools to find and evaluate the literature, and implement the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centered way. Written for anyone in the health care professions who has little or no knowledge of evidence-based medicine, it provides a clear understanding of the concepts and how to put them into practice at the basic, clinical level.Changes for the 4th editionThe fourth edition will include two new chapters on important developments |
| Subject |
Evidence-based medicine. |
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Evidence-Based Practice. |
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Medical literature -- Evaluation. |
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Medicine -- Research -- Evaluation. |
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Medicine. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Greenhalgh, Trisha How to Read a Paper : The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,c2010 9781444334364 |
| ISBN |
9781444323184 47.95 (NL,) |
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