Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, Second Edition (Jama & Archives Journals) [Paperback]

Gordon Guyatt (Author), Drummond Rennie (Author), Maureen Meade (Author), Deborah Cook (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 007159034X | ISBN-13: 978-0071590341 | Publication Date: May 21, 2008 | Edition: 2

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.

FEATURES:

• Completely revised and updated to reflect the enormous expansion in medical research and evidence-based resources since the first edition
• Innovative organization guides you from the fundamentals of using the medical literature to the more advanced strategies and skills for use in every day patient care situations
• Abundant and current real-world examples drawn from the medical literature are woven throughout, and include important related principles and pitfalls in using medical literature in patient care decisions
• Practical focus on the key issues in evidence-based practice: What are the results? Are the results valid? How to I apply to results to the care of my patients?
• More than 60 internationally recognized editors and contributors from the U.S., Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia -- the best of the best in the discipline
• NEW coverage on how to:
  --Avoid being misled by biased presentations of research findings
  --Interpret the significance of clinical trials that are discontinued early
  --Influence clinician behavior to improve patient care
  --Apply key strategies for teaching evidence-based medicine

Also look for JAMAevidence.com, a new interactive database for the best practice of evidence based medicine.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Gordon Guyatt, MD, MSc
Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario

Drummond Rennie, MD
JAMA, Chicago, IL
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Maureen O. Meade, MD, FRCPC, MSc
Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario

Deborah J. Cook, MD, MSc
Department of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario

Product Details

• Paperback: 860 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition (May 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007159034X
• ISBN-13: 978-0071590341
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference, May 23, 2010

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Janice G. Stevens (Sherman, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, Second Edition (Jama & Archives Journals) (Paperback)

This should be a required text for everyone in medicine as well as for anyone who reviews medical articles. As a scientist, I am often dismayed at the poor quality of many of the studies conducted and even more dismayed when a study of poor quality is picked up by the popular press and reported as gospel. Equally disconcerting is when the results of a study are misinterpreted or mis-reported in reviews. I would highly recommend this reference to anyone who regularly reads anything in the medical literature.

1 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ¡Cómprelo!, July 28, 2008

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Héctor Parra Riffo (Santiago,Chile) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, Second Edition (Jama & Archives Journals) (Paperback)

Puedo recomendar este libro para quienes deben leer literatura médica, para quienes necesitan comprender y manejar las herramientas que proporciona la Medicina basada en evidencias. Es un libro didáctico, balanceado, claro y escrito magistralmente. Abarca todos los tópicos principales de su especialidad y está matizado con ejemplos muy ilustrativos. Sus autores son garantía de excelencia. A no dudar, es un libro que uno debe tener y leer .