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.