Kaura, Amit.

Evidence-based medicine : reading and writing medical papers / Amit Kaura. - Edinburgh : Mosby/Elsevier, c2013. - xv, 261 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Crash course . - Crash course. .

Includes index.

Evidence-based medicine -- Handling data -- Investigating hypotheses -- Systematic review and meta-analysis -- Research design -- Randomized controlled trials -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies -- Measures of disease occurrence and cross-sectional studies -- Ecological studies -- Case report and case series -- Qualitative research -- Confounding -- Screening, diagnosis and prognosis -- Statistical techniques -- Clinical audit -- Quality improvement -- Economic evaluation -- Critical appraisal checklists -- Crash course in statistical formulae -- Careers in academic medicine.

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Evidence-Based Medicine.
Biomedical Research.
Data Collection.
Reading.
Writing.

R723.7 / .K38 2013

610.72

WB 102.5