Description
About the authors Foreword Introduction Section 1: Introduction to critical appraisal Chapter 1: Types of papers and grades of evidence Chapter 2: An approach to appraising papers Section 2: Basic Statistics Chapter 3: Types of Data and moving from samples to populations Chapter 4: P values, confidence intervals and types of Error Chapter 5: Basic Probability Section 3: Appraising different types of papers Chapter 6: Observational papers (Case series, case control, cohort, cross sectional, ecological) Chapter 7: papers Chapter 8: Therapeutic papers Chapter 9a: Diagnostic papers / Chapter 9b: Screening papers Chapter 10: Prognostic papers Chapter 11: Economic Assessment Papers Chapter 12: Meta-analysis Section 4: Applying the knowledge Chapter 13: Writing a clinical topic review Chapter 14; Running a journal club Chapter 15: Creating a `best available evidence based clinical environment Section 5: Critical appraisal exams Chapter 16: An approach to critical appraisal exams Chapter 17: Practice papers Glossary of terms
