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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, Second Edition

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ISBN-10: 0071590382

ISBN-13: 9780071590389

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie, Maureen O. Meade, Deborah J. Cook

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The "essential" companion to the landmark "Users' Guides to the Medical Literature" - completely revised and updated! Evidence-based medicine involves the careful interpretation of medical studies and its clinical application. And no resource helps you do it better-and faster-than "Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice," This streamlined reference distills the most clinically-relevant coverage from the parent "Users' Guide" into one highly-focused, portable resource. Praised for its clear explanations of detailed statistical and mathematical principles, "The Essentials" concisely covers all the basic concepts of evidence-based…    
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Book details

List price: $56.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 6/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 4.50" wide x 7.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Gordon Guyatt, MD, MSc Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton, OntarioDrummond Rennie, MD JAMA, Chicago, IL Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CAMaureen O. Meade, MD, FRCPC, MSc Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton, OntarioDeborah J. Cook, MD, MSc Department of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario

Gordon Guyatt, MD, Deputy Editor, JAMA; Professor of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Drummond Rennie, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA Maureen Meade, MD, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Deborah Cook, MD, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Foreword
Preface
Contributors
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
Index