Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Evidence PDF

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In today's rapidly changing world of clinical practice, old assumptions quickly fall under the weight of new evidence. But to make effective clinical decisions, you must face a deluge of data published in the health research literature.

With this best-selling text as your guide, you'll discover a concise, stepwise program that will help you evaluate clinical studies, identify flaws in study design, interpret statistics, and apply evidence from clinical research to your practice.

Sharpen your analytical skills with these insightful features...

• Step-by-step approach ideal for both students and practitioners guides you through the health research literature, showing you the ingredients that go into a meaningful study, clues to potential study flaws, and ways to apply solid evidence in clinical practice.
• Uniform framework uses a simple six-point framework based on the mnemonic M.A.A.R.I.E. You will learn to evaluate studies in terms of Methods, Assignment, Assessment, Results, Interpretation, and Extrapolation.
• Hypothetical illustrations demonstrate the limitations of today's published studies.
• Unique learning aids—including question checklists, scenarios illustrating study design, and flaw-catching exercises—help you reinforce key facts and retain what you've learned.

NEW to the Fifth Edition...

• New "Guide to the Guidelines" section helps you make sense of established and emerging clinical guidelines, and helps you understand the role of these guidelines in practice.
• Current information on outcomes includes discussions of safety and of the effects of interactions on outcomes.
• More graphic presentation of statistics helps make complex concepts easy to grasp and apply using a flowchart of statistics.
• StudyingaStudy.com Website is an integral feature of this edition providing interactive materials for all sections of the book. The Website provides practice using the M.A.A.R.I.E. framework, interactive flaw-catching and Selecting a Statistics exercises, self-testing questions-answers and exercises using abstracts from real articles.
• Courses and Journal Clubs can now use Studying a Study and Testing a Test with the help of a special section of the Website.

Clear the path to a new understanding of evidence-based medicine...and integrate today's best evidence into tomorrow's practice. Order your copy of Studying a Study and Testing a Test, Fifth Edition today!

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• Series: Core Handbook Series in Pediatrics
• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fifth edition (October 25, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781745764
• ISBN-13: 978-0781745765
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 7 x 10 inches
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Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Evidence PDF

I bought this book 18 months ago and never cracked it til last week. I have worked as a Medicare medical director for five years, and someone should have given each of us this book the day we started. It is a very good survey of how to assess clinical trials. You will not finish this book and then plan trials for "big pharma" nor will you have a PhD in statistics (one recent reviewer of this book at Amazon was appalled by what he found to be several semantic errors or math errors - let's bear in mind the book has thrived through 5 editions and the author has a PhD from Johns Hopkins.) But if you are thinking about what makes clinical trials "tick" and you want a thorough (300 pp) but not numbing viewpoint, this is an excellent book. I also found the book very well written, I was able to go through 50 pages at a pop and felt I was really absorbing it. Embarassingly, considering jobs I have held, I would have been hesitant to give a concise explanation of a "case control" versus "cohort" study and Riegelman makes this sort of distinction fundamental and clear early one without belaboring how important it is (you can tell how important it is). The author, Riegelman, is a senior professor at the Geo Washington Univ School of Medicine. The book is intended for medical students (smart insightful ones), MPH students, those reviewing/evaluating the clinical literature (the evidence-based-medicine world). He explains things in a way that makes you think you'll remember it for years. For a different style and result(imagine you are actually designing a clinical trial in your niche of medicine from Step A to Step Z) see the Brian Hayes/David Sackett books (several versions) on "clinical epidemiology" or "evidence based medicine."

By Bruce_in_LA VINE VOICE

A wonderful book to help out with all those journal clubs and intro epi courses we have to take. I used it in medical school and continue to use it during residency. I refer to it before journal clubs and before discussing studies with medical students. Easy to read, concise, great overview of the subject! Highly reccomended!

By Peds Resident