Users' guides to the medical literature
Subtitle: essentials of evidence-based clinical practice
By: editors, Gordon Guyatt ... [et al.].
Contributors: Guyatt, Gordon.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780071590389
Subjects: Evidence-based medicine; Clinical medicine; Evidence-Based Medicine; Clinical Medicine; Decision Making; Diagnosis, Differential; Review Literature as Topic
Other titles: Essentials of evidence-based clinical practice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: How to use the medical literature (and this book) to improve your patient care; title: The philosophy of evidence-based medicine; title: What is the question?; title: Finding the evidence; title: Why study results mislead: bias and random error; title: Therapy; title: Does treatment lower risk? Understanding the results; title: Confidence intervals; title: Harm; title: The process of diagnosis; title: Differential diagnosis; title: Diagnostic tests; title: Prognosis; title: Summarizing the evidence; title: How to use a patient management recommendation; title: Glossary.