Product Description: This innovative textbook teaches the basics of drug information, literature evaluation, and biostatistics, and relates these topics to evidence-based pharmaceutical care. Readers will learn what to look for in studies, how to critique them, and how to apply them in clinical pharmacy practice...read more

Now in its Second Edition, this book helps to unravel the process of evidence-based practice, which requires clinicians to evaluate and collate information from the journals they read. Understanding Clinical Papers, Second Edition uses actual papers to illustrate how to understand and evaluate published research, but goes beyond this to provide an explanation of a range of important research-related topics. Understanding Clinical Papers, Second Edition: Covers everything necessary to understand a clinical research paper Examples are illustrated and based uniquely on tables, abstracts and exerts from published clinical research papers Amazingly clear, lively, accessible style The new edition has been markedly improved and extended, containing, for example, new material on measurement scales, systematic reviews, writing a paper, statistics software and critical appraisal “What strikes the reader... straight away is clarity… promises to become a recommended text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses." JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS “The writing style is amazingly clear and does not require formal course work in biostatistics or epidemiology…We strongly recommend it for beginners and for easy entry into a complex domain and to experts who we think will enjoy it and who will find it useful as they teach, advise and help others.” QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE  “What makes this book unique is that each point presented is illustrated with excerpts from actual papers, often three or four per chapter... this is a very effective teaching device." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION “This book should be an essential addition to the personal libraries of all health care workers who need to use articles in journals. In these days of evidence-based medicine, this should apply to all physicians, nurses and other health professionals.” ONCOLOGY Understanding Clinical Papers, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for everyone involved directly or indirectly in health care – an ultimate guide for those who read clinical literature.

Provides health care professionals with a proven approach to reading and understanding research articles in medical journals. Filled with examples of current and classic medical studies, the Fourth Edition features new chapters on conflicting studies, literature and public policy, and interpreting drug trials.

Scientific research is the basis of all modern health care, so physician assistant students and PAs in practice must be able to interpret medical literature and apply it to their own situation. In addition, managed care demands that PAs be able to demonstrate the quality and cost-effectiveness of the care they provide. And rising expectations are leading more and more PA students and educators to perform research for a master's degree or career advancement.New! Chapters covering evidence-based medicine, clinical research and grant writing

Stories of cancer are full of monster and marvels; the monstrousness of the disease and the treatments, the marvels of the cures and the saved lives. Still one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt our imaginations, cancer is more than an illness - it is a cultural phenomenon. People who have cancer are bombarded with competing explanations of their conditions: it is genetically inherited; it is environmentally produced; it is the result of their personality. Teratologies - A Cultural Study of Cancer investigates how this disease is perceived, experienced and theorised in contemporary society. It explores changing beliefs about the causes of, and the cures for, cancer in both biomedicine and its increasingly popular alternative counterparts.Analysing conventional and alternative medical accounts, self-help manuals and patients' personal stories, Jackie Stacey takes a critical look at the place of heroes, metaphors, the self and the body in these competing bids to produce the authoritative definition of the meaning of cancer today. Interspersed with these detailed textual investigations are discussions of broader issues such as the feminist debates about the history of science, the place of consumer culture in health practices and the status of patients and of health professionals in postmodern society.Combining authobiographical narratives with contemporary theoretical debates, the author carves out a specifically feminist analysis of the cultural dimensions of cancer. She brings accounts of her own illness under the critical lens of academic scrutiny and situates these personal stories within a discussion of contemporary cultural change. (view table of contents)

This volume focuses on the study of biomedical discussion session. It is part of a series of works which seek to provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines that share a mutual interest in discourse - be it construction, computer simulation of natural language, spoken versus written discourse, or other related topics. A variety of approaches to the study of discourse are represented, including: sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics; ethnomethodology and the study of language; educational pyschology; and computational linguistics. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text aims to help students and clinicians to understand the medical literature by instilling the essential skills necessary to evaluate article findings. The principles of study design, data analysis, statistical significance and data interpretation are all examined. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book covers the information sources for six groups of allied health workers who treat patients directly and whose therapies have their own defined literatures: chiropodists, dieticians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, radiographers (both remedial and therapeutic) and speech therapists...read more