Users' guides to the medical literature [electronic resource] : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice / editors, Gordon Guyatt ... [et al.].

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.