Evidence-Based Medicine, 5th Edition

Introduction

1 Asking answerable clinical questions

2 Acquiring the evidence: How to find current best evidence and have current best evidence find us

3 Appraising the evidence

4 Therapy

5 Diagnosis and screening

6 Prognosis

7 Harm

8 Teaching methods

9 Evaluation

Appendix 1: Glossary

Appendix 2: Confidence intervals (ebook only)

Index

Sharon E. Straus, CM MD MSc FRCPC, Professor, Department of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada, Paul Glasziou, MRCGP FRACGP PhD, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Australia, W. Scott Richardson, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Georgia/Augusta University, USA and R. Brian Haynes, MD, Professor Emeritus of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada