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• Title:Between the lines : finding the truth in medical literature / Marya Zilberberg.
  
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• Author/Creator:Zilberberg, Marya.
  
• Published/Created:Goshen, MA. : Evimed Research Press, ©2012.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W20.5 .Z69 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical literature--Evaluation.
  Medical writing--Evaluation.
  Medicine--Research--Evaluation.
  
• Medical Subjects: Research Report.
  Journalism, Medical.
  Evaluation Studies as Topic.
  
• Description:x, 157 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  
• ISBN:0985456205
  9780985456207
  
• Contents:Part 1: Context. The importance of denominators ; When do diagnostic tests save lives? ; Beware of what seems too good to be true ; Why medical testing is never a simple decision ; Hierarchies and causes ; Assume a spherical cow ; Why some blockbuster drugs don't work for everyone ; When the brain gets in the way, part 1 ; When the brain gets in the way, part 2 ; The beautiful uncertainty of science ; In praise of not knowing ; A constructive way to deal with uncertainty
  Part 2: Evaluation. The study question ; Study design
  general scheme ; Observational studies ; Interventional studies ; Threats to validity : bias, misclassification, and generalizability ; Statistical analyses : measures of central tendency ; Hypothesis testing and measures of association ; Statistical significance, Type I and Type II errors ; Threats to validity : confounding and interaction ; Study results and conclusions
  Coda: Only the beginning.