Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
McGraw-Hill Medical,
[2008]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- How to use the medical literature (and this book) to improve your patient care
- The philosophy of evidence-based medicine
- What is the question?
- Finding the evidence
- Why study results mislead: bias and random error
- Therapy
- Does treatment lower risk? Understanding the results
- Confidence intervals
- Harm
- The process of diagnosis
- Differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic tests
- Prognosis
- Summarizing the evidence
- How to use a patient management recommendation
- Glossary.