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Autore |
Greenhalgh Trisha |
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Titolo |
How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine / / Trisha Greenhalgh |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford, : Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-28518-4 |
9786610285181 |
1-4443-0753-3 |
0-585-39840-2 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Evidence-based medicine |
Medical literature |
Reading |
Research |
Language Arts |
Clinical Medicine |
Evidence-Based Practice |
Science |
Health Occupations |
Language |
Medicine |
Natural Science Disciplines |
Disciplines and Occupations |
Communication |
Information Science |
Evidence-Based Medicine |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword to the first edition; Preface; Preface to the first edition: Do you need to read this book?; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Why read papers at all?; Chapter 2: Searching the literature; Chapter 3: Getting your bearings (what is this paper about?); Chapter 4: Assessing methodological quality; Chapter 5: Statistics for the non-statistician; Chapter 6: Papers that report drug trials; Chapter 7: Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests; Chapter 8: Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses) |
Chapter 9: Papers that tell you what to do (guidelines )Chapter 10: Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses); Chapter 11: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research); Chapter 12: Implementing evidence based findings; Appendix 1: Checklists for finding, appraising, and implementing evidence; Appendix 2: Evidence based quality filters for everyday use; Appendix 3: Maximally sensitive search strings (to be used mainly for research); Appendix 4: Assessing the effects of an intervention; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this work, Trisha Greenhalgh provides the basics of evidence based medicine: how to find a medical research paper, assess it for its scientific validity, and where relevant, put the findings into practice. |
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