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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Trisha Greenhalgh |
ISBN: | 9781405139762 1405139765 |
OCLC Number: | 300315029 |
Description: | xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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 drug trials -- Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests -- Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses) -- Papers that tell you what to do (guidelines) -- Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses) -- Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research) -- Papers that report questionnaire research (surveys) -- Getting evidence into practic. |
Responsibility: | Trisha Greenhalgh. |
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"One of the greatest aspects of this book is the section relating to searching the literature and whilst we may think we may all practise this on a fairly regular basis under the assumption that we do a pretty decent job of it, this section holds the key to excelling." (Urology News, May/June 2009) Read more...
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- Medical literature -- Evaluation.
- Medicine -- Research -- Evaluation.
- Evidence-based medicine.
- Evidence-Based Medicine.
- Reading.
- Médecine -- Documentation.
- Médecine -- Recherche -- Évaluation.
- Médecine factuelle.
- Recherche.
- Lecture.
- Analyse -- Base -- Document -- Documentaire -- Donnee -- Economique -- Etude -- Factuel -- Guide -- Information
- Lecture -- Litterature -- Medical -- Medecine -- Meta-Analyse -- Qualitatif -- Recherche -- Reperage -- Resume -- Revue
- Source -- Statistique