Translational Research and Clinical Practice: Basic Tools for Medical Decision Making and Self-Learning [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition]
Author: Stephen C. Aronoff | Language: English | ISBN: B005OLDSDG | Format: PDF, EPUB
Translational Research and Clinical Practice: Basic Tools for Medical Decision Making and Self-Learning
Free download Translational Research and Clinical Practice: Basic Tools for Medical Decision Making and Self-Learning for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link Translational Research and Clinical Practice offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to evidence-based medicine. The use of medical literature has always been an integral tool for patient care, yet recently the modern processes of question formulation, literature search, and study evaluation have changed with the advent of the internet and technology. The physician must be able to find empirical evidence from the appropriate study using a searchable question and then determine its impact on patient care. The book provides the general framework for such medical decision making; it covers all kinds of cases and strategies, including questions of diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, differential diagnosis, clinical presentation, and causality.
The tested material and approaches in this book are based on a course developed and taught by the author at Temple University School of Medicine. Organized for ease of use, accessibly written, and replete with clinically germane examples, Translational Research and Clinical Practice is a concise guide for medical students and clinicians seeking to effectively interpret and apply medical evidence in daily practice. Books with free ebook downloads available Translational Research and Clinical Practice: Basic Tools for Medical Decision Making and Self-Learning [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition]
Free download Translational Research and Clinical Practice: Basic Tools for Medical Decision Making and Self-Learning for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link Translational Research and Clinical Practice offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to evidence-based medicine. The use of medical literature has always been an integral tool for patient care, yet recently the modern processes of question formulation, literature search, and study evaluation have changed with the advent of the internet and technology. The physician must be able to find empirical evidence from the appropriate study using a searchable question and then determine its impact on patient care. The book provides the general framework for such medical decision making; it covers all kinds of cases and strategies, including questions of diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, differential diagnosis, clinical presentation, and causality.
The tested material and approaches in this book are based on a course developed and taught by the author at Temple University School of Medicine. Organized for ease of use, accessibly written, and replete with clinically germane examples, Translational Research and Clinical Practice is a concise guide for medical students and clinicians seeking to effectively interpret and apply medical evidence in daily practice. Books with free ebook downloads available Translational Research and Clinical Practice: Basic Tools for Medical Decision Making and Self-Learning [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 1889 KB
- Print Length: 152 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (October 20, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005OLDSDG
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,238,313 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
First off, I fully appreciate that trying to explain/summarize biostatistics and research methods is a difficult job. It's a tough topic to cover, but I give no leniency to this book's inability to accomplish its goals.
The book starts off well enough, explaining the basics involved in translational research and evidence based medical practice. However a few pages in, the book starts oversimplifying concepts, resulting in downstream misunderstanding. A perfect example in this book, is the explanation of p-values. This is a concept that is INTEGRAL to translational research, and the only attention it receives in the book is mere 22 lines of moderate-sized font, that actually explains very little. I'm not looking for definitions, I don't think anyone reading this book is. I can very easily Google/Wiki any of these concepts if I wanted a simple definition. I'm reading this book in search of understanding/explanation. This book gives the "what" but never provides the "why" or "how". Even the "simple examples" the book uses are not explained fully; in a subject where every detail matters, this book sure does leave a lot of the important ones out. Again, this is probably done with the intention of creating a minimalistic guide to the subject; eliminating as many potential pages as possible.
The other big issue with this book is the language. It says on THE COVER, "Basic Tools for Medical Decision Making...". Yet the language of the book is anything but basic. It is unnecessarily complicated; I don't know how else to put this. Reading a sentence takes 2-3 tries, not because I'm stupid (I might be, who knows?), but because halfway through a sentence, you've forgotten the point trying to be made.
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