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
Figure 1-1. Using the Medical Literature to Provide Optimal Patient Care
Topics Discussed:
algorithm, approach to medical literature, clinical decision making, information cycle, medical literature
Excerpt:
"The structure of this book reflects how we believe you should
go about using the literature to provide optimal patient care. Our approach
to addressing diagnosis, treatment, harm,
and prognosis begins when the clinician faces
a clinical dilemma (Figure 1-1). Having identified
the problem, the clinician then formulates a structured clinical
question (see Chapter 3, What Is the Question?),
and continues with finding the best relevant evidence (see Chapter 4, Finding the Evidence) (Figure 1-1)...."
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