How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine /
Greenhalgh, Trisha.
Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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.
Medical literature
Medicine
Evidence-based medicine.