Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice

Author(s)

• Guyatt, Gordon

Bibliographic Information

Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice

editors, Gordon Guyatt ... [et al.]

McGraw-Hill Medical, c2008

2nd ed

• pbk. : alk. paper
• pbk. : alk. paper

Other Title

Essentials of evidence-based clinical practice

Note

Includes bibliographical references

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Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BA88591481
• ISBN:
  • 9780071590389
  • 0071590382
• LCCN: 2007047779
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 359 p.
• Size: 18cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RA427
  • NLM : WB 102
  • DC22 : 616
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Evidence-based medicine
  • LCSH : Clinical medicine
  • MESH : Evidence-Based Medicine
  • MESH : Clinical Medicine
  • MESH : Decision Making
  • MESH : Diagnosis, Differential
  • MESH : Review Literature as Topic