Users' guides to the medical literature. Essentials of evidence-based clinical practice / editors Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie, Marueen O. Meade, Deborah J. Cook.
Users' guides to the medial literature. A manual for evidence-based clinical practice. 3602
Notes:
Preceded by Users' guides to the medical literature: the essentials of evidence-based clinical practice / the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group ; editors, Gordon Guyatt [and others]. 2nd ed. 2008. Abridgement of Users' guides to the medical literature. A manual for evidence-based clinical practice. Third edition. 2015. "JAMA & Archives Journals." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
18. Decision Making and the Patient. 1. How to Use the Medical Literature -- and This Book -- to Improve Your Patient Care -- 2. What Is Evidence-Based Medicine? -- 3. What Is the Question? -- 4. Finding Current Best Evidence -- 5. Why Study Results Mislead: Bias and Random Error -- Therapy -- 6. Therapy (Randomized Trials) -- 7. How to Use a Noninferiority Trial -- 8. Does Treatment Lower Risk? Understanding the Results -- 9. Confidence Intervals: Was the Single Study or Meta-analysis Large Enough? -- Harm (Observational Studies) -- 10. Harm (Observational Studies) -- Diagnosis -- 11. The Process of Diagnosis -- 12. Diagnostic Tests -- Prognosis -- 13. Prognosis -- Summarizing the Evidence -- 14. The Process of a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis -- 15. Understanding and Applying the Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis -- 16. Network Meta-analysis -- Moving From Evidence to Action -- 17. How to Use a Patient Management Recommendation: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Decision Analyses -- 18. Decision Making and the Patient.
Summary:
"The streamlined companion to the classic Users' guides to the medical literature--fully updated and revised. This compact guide condenses the most clinically relevant content of the landmark Users' Guides to the Medical Literature to help you incorporate evidence-based medicine into your practice. You will learn the principles of evidence-based medicine, how your practice can benefit from the constant stream of new medical literature, and how to differentiate good medical evidence from bad. This edition includes several new chapters and a new emphasis on the role of patient preferences and preappraised resources.--Provided by publisher.
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