How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine and healthcare /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley Blackwell,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Sixth edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book. |
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 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
- Papers that describe genetic association studies
- Applying evidence with patients
- Criticisms of evidence-based healthcare.