How to Read a Medical Journal Article
نویسنده
چکیده
When you are assessing the quality of the evidence, it’s not how the data are analyzed that’s important. Far more important is how the data are collected. Don’t agonize over whether the researchers should have used a non-parametric test or whether a random effects meta-analysis is appropriate (just to cite two obscure examples). These are important issues and they generate a lot of debate. But in most cases, the use of one statistical analysis or another is unlikely to make a substantial difference in the conclusions.
منابع مشابه
How to read a paper: critical appraisal of studies for application in healthcare.
Finding and using research results to support your professional decisions must be a systematic process, based on the principles of evidence-based medicine and healthcare. This article takes you through a critical appraisal exercise using a recent article from the British Medical Journal as an example. It describes how you decide whether to read and use an article that may be relevant to your de...
متن کاملReading in people with Down syndrome: "Visual route" or "phonological route"?
Background and Purpose: Many people with Down syndrome learn to read to some degree, but how they learn to read has been debated by researchers. Some researchers have argued that given the phonological deficits of people with Down syndrome and their stronger visual-spatial abilities, they rely on the "visual route" to learn to read, while others have shown that the "phonological route" is also ...
متن کامل'Gushing Out Blood': Defloration and Menstruation in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
John Cleland's 1740s pornographic novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure repeatedly depicts and eroticises the act of defloration. As such it is a revealing illustration of what Ivan Bloch termed the 'defloration mania' of the eighteenth century. This article maps narrative events on to contemporary medical depictions of first intercourse to show the ways that the theories and ideas presented in...
متن کاملCorrection to: An exotic abscess within the United Kingdom from The Gambia: a case report
CORRECTION In the publication of this article [1], there is an error in an authors name.The error: 'Estelle Hong How' Should instead read: 'Estelle How-Hong'This has now been included in this erratum.
متن کاملReading in People with Down syndrome: “visual route” or “phonological route”?
Abstract Background and Purpose: Many people with Down syndrome learn to read to some degree, but how they learn to read has been debated by researchers. Some researchers have argued that given the phonological deficits of people with Down syndrome and their stronger visual-spatial abilities, they rely on the “visual route” to learn to read, while others have shown that the “phonological ro...
متن کاملHow Much Bone Cement Is Utilized for Component Fixation in Primary Cemented Total Knee Arthroplasty?
Dear Editor, We read with great interest the timely study by Satish et al., How Much Bone Cement Is Utilized for Component Fixation in Primary Cemented Total Knee Arthroplasty? (1). We applaud the authors, yet we hope they can clarify some points to make this study more applicable to a wider population.
متن کامل