| Description |
836 pages ; 23 cm + 4 quick reference cards (13 x 8 cm) |
| 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 -- Advanced topics in the validity of therapy trials -- Hypothesis testing -- Advanced topics in applying the results of therapy trials -- Harm -- Advanced topics in harm -- The process of diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- Diagnostic tests -- Advanced topics in diagnosis -- How to critically appraise an article about prognosis -- Summarizing the evidence -- Advanced topics in systematic reviews -- How to use a patient management recommendation -- Advanced topics in moving from evidence to action |
| Notes |
Quick reference cards in pocket inside back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Evidence-based medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Clinical medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Guyatt, Gordon.
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Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group.
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| LC no. |
2007047778 |
| ISBN |
9780071590341 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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007159034X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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