| Variant title |
Pretty Darned Quick : evidence-based principles and practice |
| Portion of title |
Evidence-based principles and practice. |
| Series |
PDQ series
PDQ series. ^A812108
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Therapy, prevention and control, and quality improvement -- Diagnosis and screening -- Etiology, causation, and harm -- Natural history and prognosis -- Secondary publications: systematic review articles -- Secondary publications: clinical practice guidelines -- Secondary publications: economic analyses -- Qualitative studies. |
| Abstract |
Covers most of the material and topics that are included in basic, university-level clinical epidemiology courses. Also includes examples of research studies, how authors present the results of their studies, and how indexes from the four databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and EMBASE/EXCERPTA MEDICA) index them. Designed to include some aspects of a workbook. The theoretical principles are supplemented with many and real and hypothetical examples from all disicplines of health care. The searching assignments at the end of each chapter have suggested solutions in the CD-ROM appendix. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: McKibbon, Ann. PDQ. Hamilton, Ont. : B.C. Decker, Inc., c1999 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: McKibbon, Ann. PDQ. Hamilton, Ont. : B.C. Decker, Inc., c1999 |
| ISBN | 9781550091182 |
| ISBN | 1550091182 |
