Evidence Based Health Care Workbook: understanding research for individual and group learning

Author: Greenhalgh, Trisha; Donald, Anna

Publication Year: 2000

Contents

Using this book in learning and teaching
The principles and practice of evidence based health care
Approaching the literature
Papers that report drug trials (randomised controlled trials of therapy)
Numbers needed to treat, odds ratios, and confidence intervals
Papers that address prognosis or harm (cohort studies)
Papers that report diagnosis or screening tests
Papers that summarise other papers (systematic review and meta-analysis)
Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
Papers that analyse very rare events (case control studies)

Format	Print
Keywords	evidence based health care
Publisher	BMJ Publishing Group
Classification	evidence based health care
Edition	First
ISBN	0-7279-1447-2
Pages	167
Categories:	Books