Product Description

This easy to read pocketbook, written by world leaders in the field of evidence-based pain treatments, acts as a simple guide for people who wish to make sense of evidence in a healthcare setting and who want to avoid being misled by faulty evidence. It provides practical guidelines on how to make sense of and interpret the evidence that is available, with information on how to avoid straying beyond evidence into conjecture, supposition, and wishful thinking. It covers size, trial design, harm as well as benefit, and health economics and management evidence. 'Bandolier's Little Book of Making Sense of the Medical Evidence' has not been written as a comprehensive manual for those who want to do a systematic review or a meta-analysis, nor as a statistical or methodological textbook for students. Its origins lie in lectures for medical students, healthcare professionals from a variety of settings, and journalists. This book is a summary of the tools that Bandolier uses to assess evidence, to be able to distinguish good evidence from bad. It will be an invaluable resource for university course and GP tutors, family doctors, hospital consultants involved in research, pharmacists, and anyone interested in evidence-based health care.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238810 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 440 pages

Review
...definitely recommended not only to those who read medical literature, but to researchers as well...this book will be of use to medical students, trainees and specialists, and should be available in every department of anaesthesia. (British Journal of Anaesthesia )

[The book] does exactly what it says on the tin. It is divided into seven sections...and as such it is very easy to navigate...it is well-presented with a large number of clear diagrams and graphs that serve to break up, as well as illustrate, the text...[it] enables healthcare professionals to make sense, quickly and easily, of the evidence with which they are presented...[and] it is just as accessible to anyone outside of the healthcare profession who might wish to consult it...essential for healthcare workers and medical journalists. (Sense About Science )

The target audience is healthcare professionals wanting to use the best evidence in practice. The authors are widely known for evidence-based pain treatment...[the book] should benefit the target audience. It is a very small, compact book packed with the essential information for assessing scientific evidence. (Doody's Notes )

About the Author
Dr Andrew Moore was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, as a biochemist, and has worked in the NHS, in industry, and in acadaemia.
For 10 years he has been editor of the EBM bulletin Bandolier, and oversees its large and successful Internet site, which now has up to three million visits each week. He has worked in pain research for a quarter of a century.
Andrew's main research interests involve methods of systematic review and meta-analysis, and he us involved with many systematic reviews as well as helping develop new and better understanding. He is the author of over 350 scientific papers, and about 100 papers on EBM.