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• Title:Users' guides to the medical literature. A manual for evidence-based clinical practice / [edited by] Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie, Maureen O. Meade, Deborah J. Cook.
  
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• Variant Title:Manual for evidence-based clinical practice
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Guyatt, Gordon, editor.
  Rennie, Drummond, editor.
  Meade, Maureen, editor.
  Cook, Deborah, 1960- editor.
  American Medical Association. JAMA & archives.
  
• Published/Created:New York : McGraw-Hill Education Medical, [2015]
  

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• Library of Congress Subjects: Evidence-based medicine--Resource Guides.
  Clinical medicine--Resource Guides.
  Decision making--Resource Guides.
  
• Medical Subjects:Evidence-Based Medicine--Resource Guides.
  Clinical Medicine--Resource Guides.
  Decision Making--Resource Guides.
  Review Literature as Topic--Resource Guides.
  
• Edition:Third edition.
  
• Description:xxv, 697 pages.
  
• Series:JAMAevidence.
  
• Summary:Designed to help you to put key evidence-based medicine protocols into daily clinical practice. This detailed, yet highly readable reference demystifies the statistical, analytical, and clinical principles of evidence-based medicine, giving you a hands-on, practical resource. Here, you'll learn how to distinguish solid medical evidence from poor medical evidence, devise the best search strategies for each clinical question, critically appraise the medical literature, and optimally tailor evidence-based medicine for each patient. Current, authoritative content covering how to: avoid being misled by biased presentations of research findings; interpret the significance of clinical trials that are discontinued early; influence clinician behavior to improve patient care; and apply key strategies for teaching evidence-based medicine.
  
• Notes:Preceded by: Users' guides to the medical literature / the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group ; editors, Gordon Guyatt [and others]. 2nd ed. 2008.
  "JAMA & Archives Journals."
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780071790710 (paperback : alk. paper)
  0071790713 (paperback : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:THE FOUNDATIONS :
  1. How to use the medical literature and this book to improve your patient care
  2. What is evidence-based medicine
  3. Evidence-based medicine and the theory of knowledge
  4. What is the question?
  5. Finding current best evidence
  6. Why study results mislead: bias and random error. THERAPY :
  7. Therapy
  8. How to use a noninferiority trial
  9. Does treatment lower risk? Understanding the results
  10. Confidence intervals: was the single study or meta-analysis large enough?
  11. Advanced topics in the risk of bias of therapy trials
  12. Advanced topics in the results of therapy trials
  13. Advanced topics in applying the results of therapy trials. HARM :
  14. Harm
  15. Advanced topics in harm. DIAGNOSIS :
  16. The process of diagnosis
  17. Differential diagnosis
  18. Diagnostic tests
  19. Advanced topics in diagnosis. PROGNOSIS :
  20. Prognosis
  21. Advanced topics in prognosis. SUMMARIZING THE EVIDENCE :
  22. The process of a systematic review and meta-analysis
  23. Understanding and applying the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis
  24. Network meta-analysis
  25. Advanced topics in systematic reviews. MOVING FROM EVIDENCE TO ACTION :
  26. How to use a patient management recommendation: clinical practice guidelines and decision analyses
  27. Decision making and the patient
  28. Advanced topics in moving from evidence to action
  29. Teachers' guides to the users' guides.