Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, Second Edition

by Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie, Maureen Meade

The #1 guide to the principles and clinical applications of evidence-based medicine has just gotten better! A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE for 2011! No other resource helps you to put key evidence-based medicine protocols into daily clinical practice better than Users' 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.

Genres: Medicine, Reference, Nonfiction, Medical, Health

860 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2001

Reviews

[BradMD]

Gordon Guyatt, MD, is a big name in medical statistics.

[Eduardo]

Um dos melhores materiais sobre medicina baseada em evidências. Gostaria de ter mais tempo para dedicar-me a esta leitura...Must read para médicos e farmacêuticos decentes!