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Users' guides to the medical literature essentials of evidence-based clinical practice / [electronic resource] : Essentials of evidence-based clinical practice editors, Gordon Guyatt ... [et al.]. - 2nd ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, c2008. - 1 online resource. - McGraw-Hill professional . - McGraw-Hill professional. .

Title from PDF title page (viewed Sept. 9, 2008).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780071590396 (electronic bk.) 0071590390 (electronic bk.) 9780071608503 0071608508 6611725687 (electronic bk.) 9786611725686 (electronic bk.)

Source: OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Evidence-Based Medicine.
Clinical medicine.
Evidence-Based Medicine.
Clinical Medicine.
Decision making.
Diagnosis, Differential.
Review Literature as Topic.
Evidence-based practice.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RA427 / .U84 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 616

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WB 102 / U84 2008