1st Edition
Critical Appraisal from Papers to Patient A Practical Guide
213 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
213 Pages
by
CRC Press
213 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
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Having an understanding of critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine is a prerequisite to being an effective clinician. However, critical appraisal is often taught by people not involved in day-to-day clinical care, meaning the clinical relevance is not always brought to the fore.
This book takes a different approach. It is written by clinicians, for clinicians. It takes the reader... Read more
About the authors
Foreword
Introduction
Section 1: Introduction to critical appraisal
- Chapter 1: Types of papers and grades of evidence
- Chapter 2: An approach to appraising papers
Section 2: Basic Statistics
- Chapter 3: Types of Data and moving from samples to populations
- Chapter 4: P values, confidence intervals and types of Error
- Chapter 5: Basic Probability
Section 3: Appraising different types of papers
- Chapter 6: Observational papers (Case series, case control, cohort, cross sectional, ecological)
- Chapter 7: papers
- Chapter 8: Therapeutic papers
- Chapter 9a: Diagnostic papers / Chapter 9b: Screening papers
- Chapter 10: Prognostic papers
- Chapter 11: Economic Assessment Papers
- Chapter 12: Meta-analysis
Section 4: Applying the knowledge
- Chapter 13: Writing a clinical topic review
- Chapter 14; Running a journal club
- Chapter 15: Creating a ‘best available’ evidence based clinical environment
Section 5: Critical appraisal exams
- Chapter 16: An approach to critical appraisal exams
- Chapter 17: Practice papers
Glossary of terms
Biography
Duncan Bootland, Evan Coughlan, Robert Galloway, Emily McWhirter
