How to read a PAPER

The articles in this series are “Eye Opening” excerpts from How to read a paper: the basics of evidence based
medicine. The book includes chapters on searching the literature and implementing evidence based
findings

Author:Trisha Greenhalgh, senior lecturer
Department of Primary Care
and Population Sciences, University College London Medical School/Royal
Free Hospital School of Medicine, Whittington Hospital, London

1.Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)


2.Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)


3.Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests


4.Assessing the methodological quality of published papers


5.getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)


6.Statistics for the nonstatistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls


7.The Medline database