BIBFRAME Work

Title

Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Essentials of evidence-based clinical practice

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Guyatt, Gordon (contributor)

Subject

• Evidence-based medicine (LCSH)
• Evidence-Based Medicine (MESH)
• Clinical Medicine (MESH)
• Review Literature as Topic (MESH)
• Clinical medicine (LCSH)
• Decision Making (MESH)
• Diagnosis, Differential (MESH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• LCC: RA427 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 616 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography

Table of Contents

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.

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Users' guides to the medical literature : essentials of evidence-based clinical practice

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