Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

by Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie, Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group

Users' Guide to the Medical Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice will help you develop the core knowledge you need to take control of the medical literature -- to uncover the relevant information, assess its validity and determine whether it applies to your patient. The pocket-sized Essentials is succinct yet thorough in its exposition of the concepts, making it the ideal text to tote along on the wards. Affordably priced, the book -A thorough, comprehensive and clinician-friendly evidence-based medicine toolkit -Why framing the right question is so important -How to find and distinguish between strong and weak evidence -What's needed to critically appraise the best evidence -How to weigh the risks and benefits that precede medical management decisions -How to individualize evidence to each patient -A CD-ROM to enable intuitive, nonlinear learning experiences in coordination with the text

Genres: Medicine, Reference, Nonfiction, Medical, Health

376 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2001

Reviews

[BradMD]

Gordon Guyatt, MD, is a big name in medical statistics.

[Eduardo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Um dos melhores materiais sobre medicina baseada em evidências. Gostaria de ter mais tempo para dedicar-me a esta leitura...Must read para médicos e farmacêuticos decentes!