Clinical Evidence Made Easy second edition

<p><strong>This book will help you to understand and appraise clinical research articles and guidelines and assess how they should influence your practice.</strong><br><br>Assuming no prior knowledge, <em>Clinical Evidence Made Easy</em> starts by explaining the theory of evidence-based practice, includin</p><ul><li>understanding the hierarchy of evidence</li><li>how to recognize bias</li><li>assessing research papers</li><li>making sense of qualitative research</li><li>making use of clinical guidelines</li><li>what to do with evidence from pharmaceutical companies</li><li>how to apply the evidence in real life.</li></ul><p>The book concludes with a section covering clinical evidence at work (completely updated for this new edition) which:</p><ul><li>provides you with simple appraisal tools that you can use to evaluate research papers and clinical guidance</li><li>uses extracts from original journal articles to show how you can put the appraisal tools and theory into practice.</li></ul><p>This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and now features ‘Test your understanding’ questions for each chapter, along with answers at the end of the book.</p>