Main description:

Literature in healthcare can be overwhelming. Painless Evidence–based Medicine (EBM) tackles issues surrounding the quantity and quality of literature thus enabling EBM to have a beneficial effect on clinical practice.

Through this book, you will quickly learn the following:

• 
  
  How to
  acquire the journal articles you need to handle most of your clinical dilemmas
  


• 
  
  How to
  appraise these articles quickly and efficiently, and
  


• 
  
  How to
  apply thee articles prudently to specific healthcare situations.
  

This book isn′t completely painless but it does ′lessen the pain" of learning EBM by presenting otherwise complex material in concise, simplified, friendly language that is non–threatening even to the mathematically challenged.

Painless Evidence–Based Medicine is an invaluable resource for medical students, clinicians, clinical epidemiologists, paramedics, and nearly anyone involved in providing healthcare.

Back cover:

Literature in healthcare can be overwhelming. Painless Evidence–based Medicine (EBM) tackles issues surrounding the quantity and quality of literature thus enabling EBM to have a beneficial effect on clinical practice.

Through this book, you will quickly learn the following:

• 
  
  How to
  acquire the journal articles you need to handle most of your clinical dilemmas
  


• 
  
  How to
  appraise these articles quickly and efficiently, and
  


• 
  
  How to
  apply thee articles prudently to specific healthcare situations.
  

This book isn′t completely painless but it does ′lessen the pain" of learning EBM by presenting otherwise complex material in concise, simplified, friendly language that is non–threatening even to the mathematically challenged.

Painless Evidence–Based Medicine is an invaluable resource for medical students, clinicians, clinical epidemiologists, paramedics, and nearly anyone involved in providing healthcare.

Contents:

Foreword.

Preface.

List of Contributors.

1. Introduction.

2. Evaluation of Articles on Therapy.

3. Evaluation of Articles on Diagnosis.

4. Evaluation of Articles on Harm.

5. Evaluation of Articles on Prognosis.

6. Evaluation of Systematic Reviews.

7. Literature Searches.

Index.