Evidence-Based Health Care Workbook: For individual and group learning

Acknowledgements.

Unit 1. Using this book in learning and teaching.

Unit 2. The Principles and practice of evidence based health care.

Unit 3. Approaching the literature.

Unit 4. Papers that report drug trials (randomised controlled trials of therapy).

Unit 5. Numbers needed to treat, odds, ratios, and confidence intervals.

Unit 6. Papers that address prognosis or harm (Cohort Studies).

Unit 7. Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests.

Unit 8. Papers that summarise other papers (systematic review and meta-analysis).

Unit 9. Papers that go beyond numbers (Qualitative research).

Unit 10. Papers that analyse very rare events (case control studies).

Notes for tutors.

Model answers for checklists.

Index.