How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine by Trisha Greenhalgh

By Trisha Greenhalgh

The best-selling advent to evidence-based medicine

In a transparent and interesting variety, How to learn a Paper demystifies evidence-based drugs and explains easy methods to seriously appraise released examine and likewise placed the findings into practice.

An perfect creation to evidence-based medicine, the way to learn a Paper explains what to seem for in numerous sorts of papers and the way top to judge the literature after which enforce the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centred approach. useful record summaries of the main issues in each one bankruptcy supply an invaluable framework for utilizing the foundations of evidence-based drugs in daily practice.

This 5th variation has been totally up to date with new examples and references to mirror contemporary advancements and present perform. it is also new chapters on employing evidence-based drugs with sufferers and at the universal criticisms of evidence-based medication and responses.
How to learn a Paper is a typical textual content for scientific and nursing colleges in addition to a pleasant consultant for everybody desirous to educate or study the fundamentals of evidence-based medication.

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By Trisha Greenhalgh

The best-selling advent to evidence-based medicine

In a transparent and interesting variety, How to learn a Paper demystifies evidence-based drugs and explains easy methods to seriously appraise released examine and likewise placed the findings into practice.

An perfect creation to evidence-based medicine, the way to learn a Paper explains what to seem for in numerous sorts of papers and the way top to judge the literature after which enforce the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centred approach. useful record summaries of the main issues in each one bankruptcy supply an invaluable framework for utilizing the foundations of evidence-based drugs in daily practice.

This 5th variation has been totally up to date with new examples and references to mirror contemporary advancements and present perform. it is also new chapters on employing evidence-based drugs with sufferers and at the universal criticisms of evidence-based medication and responses.
How to learn a Paper is a typical textual content for scientific and nursing colleges in addition to a pleasant consultant for everybody desirous to educate or study the fundamentals of evidence-based medication.

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We can have Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds of articles from particular journals or on particular topics sent to our e-mail addresses or our i-Phones or personal blogs, and we can participate in Twitter exchanges related to newly published papers. Almost every journal has links from its home page allowing at least one of these social networking services. These technologies are changing continuously. Those of us who have been faced with deluges of new off-prints, photocopies and journal issues we have been meaning to read will be happy to learn that we can create the same chaos electronically.

Another source that is considered pre-appraised, although it contains no appraisals, is the Central Register of Controlled Trials, also part of the Cochrane Library. ‘Central’ is a bibliography of studies included in Cochrane Reviews, as well as in new studies on similar topics, maintained by the various Cochrane Review Groups. DARE, Central, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the HTA database and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database – which also includes critically appraised summaries of studies – may all be searched simultaneously in the Cochrane Library.

Information needs of United Kingdom primary care clinicians. Health Information & Libraries Journal 2005;22(3):196–204. 14 Smith R. Where is the wisdom … ? BMJ: British Medical Journal 1991; 303(6806):798. 15 Straus SE, Richardson WS, Glasziou P, et al. Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EBM (Fourth Edition). Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2010. Chapter 2 Searching the literature Evidence is accumulating faster than ever before, and staying current is essential for quality patient care.

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