TITLE: |
How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine / Trisha Greenhalgh. |
AUTHOR: |
Greenhalgh, Trisha. |
PUBLISHED: |
Malden, Mass. : BMJ Books/Blackwell Pub., 2010. |
DESCRIPTION: |
xv, 229 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
EDITION: |
3rd ed. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
NOTES: |
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 -- Getting evidence into practice. |
SUBJECT: |
Medical literature--Evaluation. |
SUBJECT: |
Medicine--Research --Evaluation. |
SUBJECT: |
Evidence-based medicine. |
SUBJECT: |
Research. |
SUBJECT: |
Reading. |