British Medical Journal
The British Medical Journal is a copyright of the British Medical
Association, 1997. All Rights Reserved.
Volume 315(7101-10)
July 19 to September 20 1997
This is a series of articles introducing non-experts to finding medical articles and
assessing their value.
[Education and Debate]
How to read a paper:
The
Medline database
Getting
your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
Assessing
the methodological quality of published papers
Statistics
for the non-statistician. I
Statistics
for the non-statistician. II
Papers
that report drug trials
Papers
that report diagnostic or screening tests
Papers
that tell you what things cost
Papers
that summarise other papers
Papers
that go beyond numbers
Greenhalgh, Trisha
Unit for Evidence-Based Practice and Policy, Department of
Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London Medical School/
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, Whittington Hospital, London N19 5NF.
Trisha Greenhalgh, senior lecturer.
P-greenhalgh@ucl.ac.uk.
The articles in this series are excerpts from How to read a paper: the basics of evidence based medicine. The book includes chapters on searching the literature and implementing evidence based findings. It can be ordered from the BMJ Publishing Group: tel 0171 383 6185/6245; fax 0171 383 6662. Price [pound sign]13.95 UK members, [pound sign]14.95 non-members.
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