Bandolier's Little Book of Making Sense of Medical Evidence: contents
Introduction
1 Basic understanding and tools
- Evidence-based medicine
- Searching for evidence
- The importance of size
- Simple statistics
2 Clinical trials
- Clinical trial fundamentals
- Outputs and utility
- Placebo in clinical trials
- Bias in clinical trials
- Clinical trial validity
- Quality scoring and appraisal
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials
3 Observational studies
- Observational studies: an introduction
- Prevalence and incidence studies
- Questionnaire and other observational studies
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
- Observational studies vs RCTs
4 Diagnostic testing
- Diagnostic testing: fundamentals
- Evidence and bias in diagnostic studies
- Systematic review of diagnostic studies
- Diagnostic testing: examples
5 Adverse events
- Adverse events: thinking and definitions
- Case reports of adverse events
- Adverse events in randomised trials
- Observational studies of adverse events
- Systematic review of adverse events
- Adverse drug reractions
- Adverse events: final thoughts
6 Health economics etc
- Health economics and management
- Health economic terms and meanings
- Quality of health economic studies
- Guidelines
- Care pathways
- Evidence-based management
- Trust
7 Things that don't fit easily
- Introduction
- When there is no evidence
- Beware received wisdom
- Wrongdoing
8 Glossary
