Contemporary Drug Information provides the knowledge, tools, and skills needed to identify, evaluate, interpret, and apply the findings of healthcare research studies.
Contemporary Drug Information integrates three major componenst of healthcare decision making and shows the reader how to use these concepts to provide high-level pharmaceutical care.
Contemporary Drug Information features:
- Examples from current clinical literature
- Perspective features
- Flowcharts
- Chapter objectives
- Chapter summaries
- Study problems
Contents
A Framework for Evaluating Contemporary Healthcare Information
- Integrating Drug Information, Literature Evalution, and Biostatistics to Provide Evidence-based Pharmaceutical Care
- Asking and Answering Drug Information Questions
Tools for Evaluating Contemporary Healthcare Information
- Overview of Research Designs Used to Answer Drug Information Questions
- Biostatistics Concepts—The Building Blocks for Evaluating Biostatistical Methods in Clinical Research
- Foundations of Statistical Inference
- Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Cases
- Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Cohorts and Surveys
- Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials
- Critical Appraisal of Evidence Dervied from Pharmacoeconomics Studies
- Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Systematic Reviews
Clincial Decision Making Using Contemporary Healthcare Information
- Evaluating and Implementing Practice Guidelines
- Keeping Current with the Medical Literature—Becoming an Information Master
Index
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