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Recommended in the Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library - April 2001 & 2003Now in its Fifth Edition, this best-selling text presents a step-by-step approach to critical and efficient reading of the medical literature. Health care professionals will learn how to evaluate clinical studies, identify flaws in study design, interpret statistics, and apply evidence from clinical research in practice. This edition's new section, Guide to the Guidelines, reflects the growing use and importance of clinical guidelines. The outcomes research chapter includes concepts of safety and effects of interactions on outcomes. This edition also presents statistics more graphically. Unique learning aids include checklists of questions, scenarios illustrating study design errors, and flaw-catching exercises.F they read health care literature Uniform framework provides six questions, which can be used to evaluate all health science literature Hypothetical illustrations demonstrate the kind of limitations frequently found in health science literature Unique learning aids include checklists of questions, scenarios illustrating study design errors, and flaw-catching exercisesNEW TO THIS EDITION: Math and statistics discussions are more graphical Guide to the Guidelines section that reflects the increased use of clinical guidelines as standards of car