How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based MedicineThe best-selling introduction to evidence-based medicine |
Contents
Why do people sometimes groan when you mention evidencebased | 4 |
formulate the problem | 10 |
What are you looking for? | 16 |
Specialised resources | 22 |
what is this paper about? | 28 |
The traditional hierarchy of evidence | 41 |
Were preliminary statistical questions addressed? | 54 |
Paired data tails and outliers | 68 |
Papers that tell you what to do guidelines | 135 |
Ten questions to ask about a clinical guideline | 141 |
References | 148 |
References | 162 |
Evaluating papers that describe qualitative research | 168 |
References | 176 |
References | 188 |
References | 200 |
Papers that report trials of drug treatments and other | 78 |
What information to expect in a paper describing a randomised controlled | 84 |
Papers that report trials of complex interventions | 90 |
References | 97 |
Ten questions to ask about a paper that claims to validate a diagnostic | 105 |
Clinical prediction rules | 111 |
Evaluating systematic reviews | 119 |
Explaining heterogeneity | 128 |
What does an evidencebased organisation look like? | 210 |
References | 217 |
PROMs | 223 |
n of 1 trials and other individualised approaches | 229 |
Whats wrong with EBM when its done well? | 235 |
Checklists for finding appraising and implementing | 242 |
Assessing the effects of an intervention | 252 |