How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine (HOW - How To) [Kindle Edition]
Author: Trisha Greenhalgh | Language: English | ISBN: B005D7EUBA | Format: PDF, EPUB
How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine
Free download How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine (HOW - How To) [Kindle Edition] for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link How to Read a Paper describes the different types of clinical research reporting, and explains how to critically appraise the publications. The book provides the tools to find and evaluate the literature, and implement the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centered way. Written for anyone in the health care professions who has little or no knowledge of evidence-based medicine, it provides a clear understanding of the concepts and how to put them into practice at the basic, clinical level.
Free download How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine (HOW - How To) [Kindle Edition] for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link How to Read a Paper describes the different types of clinical research reporting, and explains how to critically appraise the publications. The book provides the tools to find and evaluate the literature, and implement the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centered way. Written for anyone in the health care professions who has little or no knowledge of evidence-based medicine, it provides a clear understanding of the concepts and how to put them into practice at the basic, clinical level.
Changes for the 4th edition
The fourth edition will include two new chapters on important developments in health care research and delivery, but otherwise retains its original style, size, and scope.
- New chapter on quality improvement – describing papers on quality improvement projects using ebm methods; this will extend the readership to non clinical health care professionals working in hospitals and family practice, and to nurse specialists and practice nurses working in this field
- New chapter on complex interventions - how to set up research projects involving both qualitative and quantitative methodology (known as mixed methods)
- Thorough revision and updating of existing chapters and references
- New illustrations – diagrammatic representations of ebm concepts
- File Size: 1194 KB
- Print Length: 257 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1444334360
- Publisher: BMJ Books; 4 edition (July 5, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005D7EUBA
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #376,106 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #78 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Research
This is a very readable and informative book on how to read and assess medical research papers. The author touches on something broadly applicable to almost any field, and that is how to exercise critical thinking, how to ask the right questions, what logical traps to avoid. This is so doctors don't get fooled by eager pharmaceuticals representatives; Also, for patients to educate themselves in Bayesian statistics so they can overcome their doctors flawed tests recommendations. This book will also help researchers conduct their own experiment in integer ways to derive informative results for society at large. It will also help policymakers not being fooled by flawed research studies.
The author has been criticized for not often technically describing the statistical tests she refers to. But, this was not the author's purpose. She states right upfront in the preface, if you want to dig deep into the technicalities get Clinical Epidemiology: A Basic Science for Clinical Medicine. The author has conveyed something more important than providing another treaty in statistical epidemiology. Frankly, if you are interested in the various statistical tests, Wikipedia will do just fine. But, what tests to use when and how are very important considerations she addresses with much expertise. What analytical framework and methodology to use in what research situation. How to judge if such research conducted by others used inappropriate frameworks. Those are tough issues often more difficult to handle proficiently than conducting statistical tests.
She provides extensive information on related subjects.
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