Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade MO, Cook DJ
Part A The Foundations
Chapter 1. How to Use the Medical Literature—and This Book—to Improve Your Patient Care
Gordon Guyatt, Maureen O. Meade
How to Use the Medical Literature—and This Book—to Improve Your Patient Care: Introduction
Topics Discussed:
approach to medical literature, medical literature
Excerpt:
"The objective of this book is to help you make efficient use
of the published literature in guiding your patient care. What does
the published literature comprise? Our definition is broad. You
may find evidence* in a wide variety of sources, including original
journal articles, reviews and synopses of primary studies, practice
guidelines, and traditional and innovative medical textbooks.
Increasingly, clinicians can most easily access many
of these sources through the World Wide Web. In the future, the
Internet may be the only route of access for some resources...."
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