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

Users' Guide to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice presents the sophisticated concepts of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in unique ways that can be used to determine diagnosis, decide optimal therapy and predict prognosis. It also offers:

-In-depth expansion of methodology, statistics and cost issues that emerge in medical research

-Two cross referenced parts

-Self contained sections to facilitate quick reference

-Why framing the right question is so important

-How to find and distinguish between strong and weak evidence

-What's needed to critically appraise the best evidence

-How to weigh the risks and benefits that precede medical management decisions

-How to individualize evidence to each patient

-A CD-ROM to enable intuitive, nonlinear learning experiences in coordination with the text

From the popular series in JAMA comes a state of the art book from the authors who coined the term evidence-based medicine. Edited by Gordon Guyatt, MD, and Drummond Rennie, MD, this highly innovative book enables physicians to quickly grasp efficient ways to use published literature in their clinical practice to improve their caregiving to patients. A fully searchable and hyperlinked CD, co-edited by Robert Hayward, MD, is included with each book.

With the most current evidence based medicine thinking, you can understand how to individualize evidence to each patient, obtain tips on how to find the information you need and how to make the optimal use of it in your practice, balance benefits and risks that precede medical management decisions, distinguish between strong and weak evidence, and understand detailed critical appraisal and summarization of evidence.

Includes a free trial subscription to Users' Guides Interactive Web site with purchase.