Clincal Evidence Made Easy

This is a short book, 207 pages excluding the index, and is ideal for health professionals who wish to learn about or improve their skills in clinical evidence and critical appraisal. The reader can use the book like a critical appraisal course manual working through each chapter consecutively. Alternatively for the person with some knowledge of clinical evidence methodology and critical appraisal, perusal of individual chapters allows improvement in specific concepts as needed. For individuals with a competent working knowledge of clinical evidence methodology and critical appraisal skills it is an excellent reference text. The first section deals with understanding clinical evidence. The second section deals with clinical evidence at work The chapters are succinct. The text is simple and easy to follow. The concepts are extremely well explained throughout. In particular the second section explains how to integrate critical appraisal into daily practice using examples from the literature. It allows the reader to better appraise medical literature including scientific papers, clinical guidelines, health economic guidelines and evidence from pharmaceutical companies. Appraisal tools to do this are conveniently incorporated into the latter chapters.