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Designed to help you to put key evidence-based medicine protocols into daily clinical practice. This detailed, yet highly readable reference demystifies the statistical, analytical, and clinical principles of evidence-based medicine, giving you a hands-on, practical resource. Here, you'll learn how to distinguish solid medical evidence from poor medical evidence, devise the best search strategies for each clinical question, critically appraise the medical literature, and optimally tailor evidence-based medicine for each patient. Current, authoritative content covering how to: avoid being misled by biased presentations of research findings; interpret the significance of clinical trials that are discontinued early; influence clinician behavior to improve patient care; and apply key strategies for teaching evidence-based medicine.… (more)
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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.