Users' Guide to the Medical Literature: The Manual for Every Physician with CDROM and Cards (User's Guides to the Medical Literature) [Paperback]

Gordon H. Guyatt (Author), Drummond Rennie (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1579471749 | ISBN-13: 978-1579471743 | Publication Date: January 2002

...the definitive tome on evidenced-based medicine... uniquely organized for an intuitive learning experience. Offers in-depth expansion of methodology, stats, and cost issues that emerge in medical research. (Book/CD)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"(E)very practitioner of medicine should read the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. An excellent "how-to" manual...’ -- Archives of Ophthalmology American Medical Association

"..a wonderful teaching tool and resource. It should be owned by all clinicians" -- Archives of Dermatology American Medical Association

"We hope that all clinicians will ... study this reference because we believe that patients would certainly benefit." -- American College of Physicians Journal Club/Evidence-Based Medicine

From the Publisher

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 706 pages
• Publisher: American Medical Association Press (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579471749
• ISBN-13: 978-1579471743
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great little book!, November 9, 2006

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This review is from: Users' Guide to the Medical Literature: The Manual for Every Physician with CDROM and Cards (User's Guides to the Medical Literature) (Paperback)

This is a small but mighty book that takes you beyond the basics of evidence based practice. The statistics section is nicely written in easy-to-understand terms. Don't know what NNTT or NNTH mean? What about odds ratios or likelihood ratios or confidence intervals? Well it's all in there with some good examples. A good accompaniment for any evidence-based practice book. Buy the book used though. It's not worth the high price for a new one.