BookTrisha Greenhalgh, Paul Dijkstra
Summary: "In a clear and engaging style, How to Read a Paper demystifies evidence-based medicine and explains how to critically appraise published research and also put the findings into practice. An ideal introduction to evidence-based medicine, How to Read a Paper explains what to look for in different types of papers and how best to evaluate the literature and then implement the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centred way. Helpful checklist summaries of the key points in each chapter provide a useful framework for applying the principles of evidence-based medicine in everyday practice"-- Provided by publisher
Contents:
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 clinical trials of 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 advise you what to do (guidelines)
Papers that estimate what things cost (health economic evaluations)
Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
Papers that report questionnaire research
Papers that report quality improvement case studies
Papers that describe genetic association studies
Applying evidence with patients
Papers on artificial intelligence in healthcare
EBM+ : the importance of mechanistic evidence
Papers that report consensus exercises
Criticisms of evidence-based healthcare
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