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Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice / editors, Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie, Marueen O. Meade, Deborah J. Cook

Contributor(s): Guyatt, Gordon [editor] | Rennie, Drummond [editor] | Meade, Maureen [editor] | Cook, Deborah, 1960- [editor].
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Education : The JAMA Network, c2015Edition: 3rd edition.Description: xxvii, 516 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780071794152.Other title: Essentials of evidence-based clinical practice | Users' guides to the medical literature : a manual for evidence-based clinical practice [Other title].Subject(s): Evidence-based medicine | Clinical medicine | Clinical medicine -- Decision making | Clinical Medicine | Decision Making | Evidence-Based Medicine | Review Literature as TopicGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
The Foundations -- How to Use the Medical Literature -- and This Book -- to Improve Your Patient Care -- What Is Evidence-Based Medicine? -- What Is the Question? -- Finding Current Best Evidence -- Why Study Results Mislead: Bias and Random Error -- Therapy -- Therapy (Randomized Trials) -- How to Use a Noninferiority Trial -- Does Treatment Lower Risk? Understanding the Results -- Confidence Intervals: Was the Single Study or Meta-analysis Large Enough? -- Harm (Observational Studies) -- Harm (Observational Studies) -- Diagnosis -- The Process of Diagnosis -- Diagnostic Tests -- Prognosis -- Prognosis -- Summarizing the Evidence -- The Process of a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis -- Understanding and Applying the Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis -- Network Meta-analysis -- Moving From Evidence to Action -- How to Use a Patient Management Recommendation: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Decision Analyses -- Decision Making and the Patient
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Abridgement of Users' guides to the medical literature. A manual for evidence-based clinical practice. Third edition. 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index

The Foundations -- 1. How to Use the Medical Literature -- and This Book -- to Improve Your Patient Care -- 2. What Is Evidence-Based Medicine? -- 3. What Is the Question? -- 4. Finding Current Best Evidence -- 5. Why Study Results Mislead: Bias and Random Error -- Therapy -- 6. Therapy (Randomized Trials) -- 7. How to Use a Noninferiority Trial -- 8. Does Treatment Lower Risk? Understanding the Results -- 9. Confidence Intervals: Was the Single Study or Meta-analysis Large Enough? -- Harm (Observational Studies) -- 10. Harm (Observational Studies) -- Diagnosis -- 11. The Process of Diagnosis -- 12. Diagnostic Tests -- Prognosis -- 13. Prognosis -- Summarizing the Evidence -- 14. The Process of a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis -- 15. Understanding and Applying the Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis -- 16. Network Meta-analysis -- Moving From Evidence to Action -- 17. How to Use a Patient Management Recommendation: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Decision Analyses -- 18. Decision Making and the Patient

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