How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, Mass. :
BMJ Books,
2006.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of 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 drug trials
- 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 (surveys)
- Getting evidence into practice.