Between the Lines: Finding the Truth in Medical Literature (English Edition) [Format Kindle] Author: Marya Zilberberg | Language: English | ISBN:
B008FAUZ5M | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Have you ever wondered how to make sense of conflicting headlines? What does it really mean when the news shouts "meat kills?" Have you always wanted to learn to evaluate rationally the data behind cancer screening recommendations, so you can understand what the evidence really says? Are you a medical librarian, a journalist, a beginner peer reviewer, a healthcare professional or a student interested in sharpening your critical literature review skills?
If the answer to any of these questions is "yes," this book is for you. In an accessible conversational tone, Zilberberg demystifies the nuances of such details as what constitutes a valid scientific question, how to judge whether the study design is appropriate, how to identify common threats to validity and how to evaluate a study's conclusions. She also challenges you to understand how the human brain, philosophy of science and the ever-present uncertainty in science impact what medical literature can and cannot tell us.
In today's world of data overload when it is hard to know what to believe, Between the Lines teaches you how to be a savvy consumer of medical information.
Biographie de l'auteur
Marya Zilberberg is a physician-researcher and adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is widely published in evidence-based medicine, and is committed to teaching the public how to evaluate scientific evidence with a critical eye.
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My field - weight science - is so firmly entrenched in assumptions about weight, that it's rare to find a peer-reviewed journal article where the conclusions are actually supported by the data. News reporting just compounds the disconnect. Understanding research requires that we delve in and learn the tricks of the trade. But there are not many places where we can go to learn to evaluate the methods of such research systematically. In her new book "Between the Lines: Finding the Truth in Medical Literature" Marya Zilberberg, MD, MPH, has created a toolbox of evaluative tools for understanding primary literature, sophisticated enough for scientists yet accessible to students. Should be required reading for graduate students headed towards research. Will challenge lay people without stats background, but still accessible for the committed. Hats off to Zilberberg for giving us a handy guide to evaluating the evidence. I highly recommend this book.
Par Linda Bacon
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I am one of three faculty members at St. Mary's Family Medicine Residency in charge of teaching our Evidence-Based Medicine curriculum to our residents. Our experience, so far, can best be described as...mixed. Tragically often, our residents leave the two-week rotation (which, up till now, focused on writing critically-appraised topics or brief peer-reviewed literature reviews) feeling that EBM is impractical, takes too much time, requires a PhD in biostatistics, and doesn't apply to their future careers.
Along came Dr. Zilberberg's wonderful book. She has--in an engaging, concise volume which mercifully leaves out statistical esoterica--written a readable manifesto about real-world evidence-based medicine. The first half of the book emphasizes (what should be) the foundation of good medical practice - the scientific method and critical thinking. Fully half of the book encourages and reminds us to embrace uncertainty and humbly recognize how little we know--a fundamental virtue for the comprehensivist family physician.
The second half of the book covers more typical topics such as study design, hypothesis testing and study validity. However, again, all of this is done conversationally, with a bare minimum of mathematics or "hard" statistics. Throughout the book, one can imagine Dr. Zilberberg chatting passionately with us about her beloved EBM over a cup of coffee, and we would come away with a much better grasp of how to read and evaluate medical literature.
I bought three copies of "Between the Lines" - one for myself and one for my two faculty EBM colleagues. Mine is already annotated and underlined, and I plan to make it the "textbook" for our EBM rotation. If our residents can come away, as I did, with a renewed commitment to scientific thought, embracing uncertainty in medicine, and a basic grasp of study design, pitfalls and tricks in the literature, and some basic statistics, we'll be off to a great start!
Par Paul D. Simmons
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