Greenhalgh, Trisha

How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine / Trisha Greenhalgh. - Fourth edition. - xvii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 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.

1444334360 9781444334364

2009051037


Medical literature--Evaluation
Medicine--Research--Evaluation.
Evidence-based medicine.
Journalism, Medical.
Research.
Reading.
Evidence-Based Practice

R118.6 / .G74 2010

610.72