Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice / The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group ; edited by Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie
Basics: using the medical literature -- Introduction: philosophy of evidence-based medicine -- Finding the evidence -- Therapy and harm: introduction -- Therapy -- Harm -- Process of diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- Diagnostic tests -- Prognosis -- Summarizing the evidence -- Moving from evidence to action -- Beyond the basics: using and teaching the principles of evidence-based medicine -- Therapy and harm: why study results mislead- bias and random error -- Therapy and understanding the results: hypothesis testing -- Therapy and understanding the results: confidence intervals -- Therapy and understanding the results: measures of association
Notes
"This book grew out of a series of 25 articles published in JAMA between 1993 and 2000"--P. xv
4 quick reference cards (13 x 8 cm.) in pocket
Issued with computer optical disc: Users' guides to the medical literature: a manual for evidence-based clinical practice/edited by Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie and Robert Hayward
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
System requirements for accompanying computer optical disc: IBM PC or Mcintosh computer; CD is fully hyperlinked for PC, read-only for Mac
