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.

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.

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This practical workbook combines the authors' expertise with published papers from the BMJ as examples.

The exercises are for individual or group self-learning and cover all aspects of evidence based problem solving.

The different units include:

• randomised controlled trials of therapy
• numbers needed to treat, odds ratios, and confidence intervals
• cohort studies
• diagnostic or screening tests
• systematic reviews and meta-analyses
• qualitative research
• case control studies

Devised and written by two internationally renowned teachers of evidence based health care, this book will be an invaluable learning resource for all teachers and would be practitioners of evidence based healthcare.

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.