Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

This is the streamlined companion to the classic Users' Guides to the Medical Literature - fully updated and revised. This compact guide condenses the most clinically relevant content of the landmark Users' Guides to the Medical Literature to help you incorporate evidence-based medicine into your practice. You will learn the principles of evidence-based medicine, how your practice can benefit from the constant stream of new medical literature, and how to differentiate good medical evidence from that which is inadequate or misleading. This edition includes numerous updates, several new chapters, and a greater emphasis on the role of patient preferences and preappraised resources.