Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice / editors, Gordon Guyatt ... [et al.].
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TextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, c2008Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxii, 359 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. + 4 pocket cardsISBN: 9780071590389 (pbk); 0071590382 (pbk)Other title: Essentials of evidence-based clinical practiceSubject(s): Evidence-based medicine | Clinical medicine | Evidence-Based Medicine | Clinical Medicine | Decision Making | Diagnosis, Differential | Review Literature as TopicDDC classification: 616 Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
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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.
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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.
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