How to read a paper
by Trisha Greenhalgh · first published 1997
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"How to Read a Paper is one of the bestselling texts on evidence-based medicine, used by health care professionals and medical students worldwide. Trisha Greenhalgh's ability to explain the basics of evidence-based medicine in an accessible and readable way means the book is an ideal introduction for all, from first year students to experienced practitioners. This is a text that explains the meaning of critical appraisal and terms such as numbers needed to treat, how to search the literature, evaluate the different types of papers and put the conclusions to clinical use."--Jacket.
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The real problem is teaching children that "reading" is merely decoding words off a page, and "listening" is merely hearing the words someone says. The book itself is a way to open the door to learning, not the end point. Reading subject titles first, cross-referencing, and working examples and doing projects help teach and cement ideas. There's techniques like SQ4R [1] for reading, and hugely
on “Andy Matuschak – Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, Why Books Don't Work” ↗I thought that was going to be Trisha Greenhalgh's How to Read a Paper: https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Paper-Evidence-Based-Medicin... Superficially the same idea, but it is for advising medical practitioners on how to apply research to their work. It goes about this by…
on “How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]” ↗…calculator is relatively opinionated, with two confidence presets, one inspired by Itamar Gilad's Confidence Meter (from Evidence Guided) and the other from Trisha Greenhalgh's Levels of Evidence model (from How to Read a Paper). For people wanting something custom, it also allows people to easily configure their own scales and evidence types, including impact and effort ranges, units and switching from logarithmic to exponential…
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