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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454778603321

Autore

Greenhalgh Trisha

Titolo

How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine / / Trisha Greenhalgh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2000

ISBN

1-280-28518-4

9786610285181

1-4443-0753-3

0-585-39840-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

616

616.075

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.