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BCONG 1998 Annual Conference
Untangling the Web: An Introduction to the Internet
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           Evaluating On-line Health Information           
 
The British Medical Journal Series on "How to read a paper," by Trisha Greenhalgh:
  1. The Medline database, BMJ 1997;315:180-183 (19 July)
  2. Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about), BMJ 1997;315:243-246 (26 July)
  3. Assessing the methodological quality of published papers, BMJ 1997;315:305-308 (2 August)
  4. Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests, BMJ 1997;315:364-366 (9 August)
  5. Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls, BMJ 1997;315:422-425 (16 August)
  6. Papers that report drug trials, BMJ 1997;315:480-483 (23 August)
  7. Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests, BMJ 1997;315:540-543 (30 August)
  8. Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses), BMJ 1997;315:596-599 (6 September)
  9. Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), BMJ 1997;315:672-675 (13 September)
  10. Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research), BMJ 1997;315:740-743 (20 September)
Evaluating Health Information on the Internet:
The series of articles at left are excerpts from How to read a paper: the basics of evidence based medicine. The book can be ordered from the BMJ Bookshop:
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