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Studying a study and testing a test : how to read the medical evidence / Richard K. Riegelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riegelman, Richard K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical literature--Evaluation.
- Medical literature.
- Medicine--Research--Evaluation.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (411 p.)
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Other Title:
- How to read the medical evidence
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2005.
- Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Now in its Fifth Edition, this best-selling text presents a step-by-step approach to critical and efficient reading of the medical literature. Health care professionals will learn how to evaluate clinical studies, identify flaws in study design, interpret statistics, and apply evidence from clinical research in practice. This edition's new section, Guide to the Guidelines, reflects the growing use and importance of clinical guidelines. The outcomes research chapter includes concepts of safety and effects of interactions on outcomes. This edition also presents statistics more graphically. Unique learning aids include question checklists, scenarios illustrating study design, and flaw-catching exercises, plus a StudyingaStudy.com Website providing interactive materials.
- Contents:
- Introduction and flaw-catching exercise
- Types of studies and the M.A.A.R.I.E. framework
- Method
- Assignment
- Assessment
- Results
- Interpretation
- Extrapolation
- Randomized clinical trials
- Database research: nonconcurrent cohort studies
- Meta-analysis
- Questions to ask and flaw-catching exercises
- Screening
- Method and assignment
- Interpretation and extrapolation
- Life expectancy
- Introduction and method
- Questions to ask and Flaw-catching exercises
- Extrapolation and questions to ask
- Basic principles
- Univariable analysis
- Bivariable analysis
- Multivariable analysis
- Selecting a statistic flowcharts.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4698-7529-2
- OCLC:
- 74101793
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