Users' guides to the medical literature essentials of evidence-based clinical practice - Guyatt, Gordon (New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, 2008)
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.
Title from PDF title page (viewed Sept. 9, 2008).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Evidence-Based Medicine; Clinical medicine; Evidence-Based Medicine; Clinical Medicine; Decision making; Diagnosis, Differential; Review Literature as Topic; Evidence-based practice; Electronic books