Essentials of Evidence-based Clinical Practice (Users' Guides to the Medical Literature) - Softcover

Rennie, Drummond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1579471919 ISBN 13: 9781579471910

Publisher: American Medical Association, 2002

Synopsis

"Users' Guide to the Medical Literature: 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 pocketsized 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 offers: 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; and, a CD-ROM to enable intuitive, nonlinear learning experiences in coordination with the text.Also available is the "Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice", which together with "Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice" provide the most detailed yet clinical-friendly exposition of the concepts necessary to use the medical literature to solve patient problems.

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Review

"The Users' Guides to the Medical Literature is a wonderful teaching tool and resource. It should be owned by all clinicians, be they early in their training or near retirement."

About the Author

Gordon Guyatt, MD, MSc
Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario

Drummond Rennie, MD
JAMA, Chicago, IL
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Maureen O. Meade, MD, FRCPC, MSc
Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario

Deborah J. Cook, MD, MSc
Department of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario

Edition details

• Publisher: American Medical Association
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579471919
• ISBN 13: 9781579471910
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Guyatt Gordon M.D.