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• Title:How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine / Trisha Greenhalgh.
  
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• Author/Creator:Greenhalgh, Trisha.
  
• Published/Created:Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
  

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• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical literature--Evaluation.
  Medicine--Research--Evaluation.
  Evidence-based medicine.
  
• Medical Subjects: Evidence-Based Practice.
  Journalism, Medical.
  Research.
  
• Edition:4th ed.
  
• Description:xvii, 238 pages : ill ; 22 cm.
  
• Summary:Trisha Greenhalgh provides the basics of evidence based medicine: how to find a medical research paper, assess it for its scientific validity, and where relevant, put the findings into practice.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781444334364 (pbk.)
  1444334360
  
• Contents:Why read papers at all?
  Searching the literature
  Getting your bearings : what is this paper about?
  Assessing methodological quality
  Statistics for the non-statistician
  Papers that report trials of drug treatments and other simple interventions
  Papers that report trials of complex interventions
  Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
  Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
  Papers that tell you what to do (guidelines)
  Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)
  Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
  Papers that report questionnaire research
  Papers that report quality improvement case studies
  Getting evidence into practice.