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Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice / Essentials of evidence-based clinical practice editors, Gordon Guyatt ... [et al.]. - 2nd ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, c2008. - xxii, 359 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. + 4 pocket cards.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN: 9780071590389 (pbk) 0071590382 (pbk)

LCCN: 2007047779

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Evidence-based medicine.
Clinical medicine.
Evidence-Based Medicine.
Clinical Medicine.
Decision Making.
Diagnosis, Differential.
Review Literature as Topic.

Dewey Class. No.: 616 / U84