Users' guides to the medical literature : a manual for evidence-based clinical practice

The #1 guide to the principles and clinical applications of evidence-based medicine is better than ever! No other resource helps clinicians 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. Readers will 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…