User's Guide to the Medical Literature

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User's Guide to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
By Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie,


Publisher:  American Medical Association Press
Number Of Pages:  376
Publication Date:  2001-08
Sales Rank:  69556
ISBN / ASIN:  1579471919
EAN:  9781579471910
Binding:  Paperback
Manufacturer:  American Medical Association Press
Studio:  American Medical Association Press
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Book Description:

Users' Guide to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice will help you develop the core knowledge you need to take control of the medical literature -- to uncover the relevant information, assess its validity and determine whether it applies to your patient. The pocket-sized Essentials is succinct yet thorough in its exposition of the concepts, making it the ideal text to tote along on the wards. Affordably priced, the book offers:

-A thorough, comprehensive and clinician-friendly evidence-based medicine toolkit

-Why framing the right question is so important

-How to find and distinguish between strong and weak evidence

-What's needed to critically appraise the best evidence

-How to weigh the risks and benefits that precede medical management decisions

-How to individualize evidence to each patient

-A CD-ROM to enable intuitive, nonlinear learning experiences in coordination with the text

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