Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
Subtitle: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3E
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical; McGraw-Hill Education
Published: Dec 30, 2014
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780071790710
Description: Designed to help you to put key evidence-based medicine protocols into daily clinical practice. This detailed, yet highly readable reference demystifies the statistical, analytical, and clinical principles of evidence-based medicine, giving you a hands-on, practical resource. Here, you'll learn how to distinguish solid medical evidence from poor medical evidence, devise the best search strategies for each clinical question, critically appraise the medical literature, and optimally tailor evidence-based medicine for each patient. Current, authoritative content covering how to: avoid being misled by biased presentations of research findings; interpret the significance of clinical trials that are discontinued early; influence clinician behavior to improve patient care; and apply key strategies for teaching evidence-based medicine.
Notes: Source title: Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3E