Clinical Evidence Made Easy second edition

This book will help you to understand and appraise clinical research articles and guidelines and assess how they should influence your practice.Assuming no prior knowledge, Clinical Evidence Made Easy starts by explaining the theory of evidence-based practice, includinunderstanding the hierarchy of evidencehow to recognize biasassessing research papersmaking sense of qualitative researchmaking use of clinical guidelineswhat to do with evidence from pharmaceutical companieshow to apply the evidence in real life.The book concludes with a section covering clinical evidence at work (completely updated for this new edition) which:provides you with simple appraisal tools that you can use to evaluate research papers and clinical guidanceuses extracts from original journal articles to show how you can put the appraisal tools and theory into practice.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.