Evidence-Based Health Care Workbook
For individual and group learning
Evidence-Based Medicine Series

Based on Trisha Greenhalgh's course on teaching evidence based health care, this workbook can be used as a stand alone self learning book, either for groups or individuals. The different units covering areas such as decision analysis and diagnostic testing each contain a published paper with exercises for the user, and critical appraisal checklists. It will act as a complement to the best-selling How to Read a Paper.

Preface.

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.

Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care and Director, Healthcare Innovation and Policy Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.