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Title: Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Evidence (With CD-ROM for Windows & Macintosh) by Richard K. Riegelman ISBN: 0-7817-1860-0 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Reading: Broad or narrow?
Comment: This book assumes that the reading of medical texts is not just something that is self-evident, but something that can be learned by reading the book. "The traditional course in reading the medical literature consists of "Here's the New England Journal of Medicine. Read it!". Unlike this "sink or swim" method, this book provides a step-by step, active-participation approach to a clinical review of the medical literature.
In a way, this book is a traditional book on research methods turned upside down. Instead of telling the researcher how to do and report a study, this book tells the reader how to apply such knowledge in determining the quality of a medical paper. As such it is well written, clear and relevant.
I would like to suggest, however, that research methods are always depending on a views in the philosophy of science. (Courses in the Philosophy of Medicine are becoming more and more important in the education of Doctors). As an example of a well received book I can mention "Philosophy of Medicine. An Introduction" by Henrik R. Wulff, Stig Andur Pedersen & Raben Rosenberg (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1986). Knowledge of this kind should enable the reader to read and interpret the medical literature at a still higher level. (It is of course more difficult to write easy "how to read books" based on such a more theoretical and philosophical level compared to the more statistical and methodical level).
There exists a broader literature on "Clinical reasoning in the health Professions" (Higgs et al), "Medical semiotics" (Baer et al.), diverse philosophical studies of medicine, "Quality in science" and much more. It would be interesting if anyone would try to expose how such knowledge could be turned upside down as guide on how to read the medical literature on a still deeper level.
It is my claim that a general background in philosophy and science studies should provide readers with even better qualifications to read the scientific literature. This is not an extraordinary position. In Denmark courses in the philosophy of science are very popular, and just now are we discussing to make such courses compulsory in all university studies.
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Title: Evidence-Based Medicine: A Framework for Clinical Practice by Daniel J. Friedland ISBN: 0838524761 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange Pub. Date: 22 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Physician Assistant's Guide to Research and Medical Literature by J. Dennis, Phd, Pa-C Blessing ISBN: 0803607687 Publisher: F.A. Davis Company Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM (Book with CD-ROM) by David L. Sackett, Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, R. Brian Haynes ISBN: 0443062404 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach by Stephen B. Hulley, Steven R. Cummings, Warren S. Browner, Deborah Grady, Norman Hearst, Thomas B. Newman ISBN: 0781722187 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: How to Read a Paper by Trisha Greenhalgh ISBN: 0727915789 Publisher: Bmj Publishing Group Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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