How to read a paper
Subtitle: the basics of evidence-based medicine
By: Trisha Greenhalgh.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781444334364
Subjects: Medical literature -- Evaluation; Medicine -- Research -- Evaluation; Evidence-based medicine; Evidence-Based Practice; Journalism, Medical; Research
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why read papers at all?; title: Searching the literature; title: Getting your bearings : what is this paper about?; title: Assessing methodological quality; title: Statistics for the non-statistician; title: Papers that report trials of drug treatments and other simple interventions; title: Papers that report trials of complex interventions; title: Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests; title: Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses); title: Papers that tell you what to do (guidelines); title: Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses); title: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research); title: Papers that report questionnaire research; title: Papers that report quality improvement case studies; title: Getting evidence into practice.