Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

Authors: Gordon Guyatt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Edition: 3
Publish Year: 2015
ISBN: 9781259255274

The #1 guide to the principles and clinical applications of evidence-based medicine has just gotten better! No other resource helps you to put key evidence-based medicine protocols into daily clinical practice better than JAMA User's Guides to the Medical Literature . An instant classic in its first edition, this detailed, yet highly readable reference demystifies the statistical, analytical, and clinical principles of evidence-based medicine, giving you a hands-on, practical resource that no other text can match. 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. The new second edition of this landmark resource is now completely revised and refreshed throughout, with expanded coverage of both basic and advanced issues in using evidence-based medicine in clinical practice.