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| A Framework for Evaluating Contemporary Healthcare Information | |
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| Integrating Drug Information, Literature Evaluation, and Biostatistics to Provide Evidence-Based Pharmaceutical Care | |
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| The Triad of Skills | |
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| Integrating the Skill Triad into Routine Clinical Situations | |
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| Asking and Answering Drug Information Questions | |
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| A Systematic Approach to Providing Drug Information | |
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| Putting It all Together-Practicing the Systematic Approach | |
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| Ethics and Legalities of Providing Drug Information | |
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| Tools for Evaluating Contemporary Healthcare Information | |
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| Overview of Research Designs Used to Answer Drug Information Questions | |
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| Descriptive Research Designs | |
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| Observational Research Designs | |
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| Randomized Controlled Trial Study Designs | |
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| Pharmacoeconomics Study Designs | |
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| Systematic Reviews | |
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| Applying the Results from Healthcare Research Designs | |
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| Biostatistics Concepts-The Building Blocks for Evaluating Biostatistical Methods in Clinical Research | |
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| Properties of Variables | |
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| Distributions of Numbers | |
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| Describing Data | |
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| Foundations of Statistical Inference | |
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| Probability | |
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| Probability Distributions | |
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| Sampling Distributions | |
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| Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Putting It All Together-Understanding the Rationale for Statistical Inference | |
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| Effect Size of Statistically Significant Differences | |
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| Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Cases | |
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| Case Study and Case Series Designs | |
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| The Case-Control Study Design | |
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| Expressing Associations Using Case-Control Study Designs | |
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| Analyzing Nominal and Ordinal Data | |
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| How to Evaluate Evidence from a Case-Control Study | |
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| Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Cohorts and Surveys | |
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| Cohort Study Design | |
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| How to Evaluate Evidence from a Cohort Study Design | |
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| Relationships among Variables | |
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| Cross-Sectional Study Design | |
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| How to Evaluate a Cross-Sectional Study | |
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| Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials | |
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| Types of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials | |
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| Methodological Considerations | |
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| How to Evaluate Evidence from a Clinical Trial Design | |
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| How a Pharmacist Might Use Critical Evaluation of RCTs to Provide Drug Information | |
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| Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Pharmacoeconomics Studies | |
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| The Pharmacoeconomics Question | |
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| The Research Question and General Information | |
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| Costs and Outcomes | |
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| Types of Pharmacoeconomics Analyses | |
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| Evidence and Data Collection | |
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| External Validity and Application to the Pharmacoeconomics Question | |
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| Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Systematic Reviews | |
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| Quantitative Systematic Reviews (Meta-Analyses) | |
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| How to Evaluate a Meta-Analysis | |
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| Qualitative Systematic Reviews | |
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| Clinical Decision Making Using Contemporary Healthcare Information | |
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| Evaluating and Implementing Practice Guidelines | |
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| Limitations of Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines | |
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| Methods for Clinical Practice Guideline Development | |
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| Evaluating Clinical Practice Guidelines | |
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| The Pharmacist's Role in Implementing Guidelines | |
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| Using Practice Guidelines to Make Clinical Decisions | |
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| Keeping Current with the Medical Literature-Becoming an Information Master | |
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| A Patient Centered Strategy for Distilling Clinically Relevant Information | |
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| Foraging through the Medical Literature | |
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| Maintaining Literature Evaluation Skills | |
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| Drug Information Tables | |
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| Statistical Tables | |
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| Reprints of Critiqued Articles | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |