Websites for critical appraisal in diagnosis and treatment

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Evidence-based medicine: a new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA 1992; 268(17):2420-5.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: I. How to get started. JAMA 1993; 270(17):2093-5.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: II. How to use an article about therapy or prevention. A. Are the results of the study valid? JAMA 1993; 270(21):2598-601.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: II. How to use an article about therapy or prevention. B. What were the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? JAMA 1994;271(1):59-63.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. A. Are the results of the study valid? JAMA 1994; 271(5):389-91.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. B. What were the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? JAMA 1994;271(9):703-7.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: IV. How to use an article about harm.JAMA 1994; 271(20):1615-9.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: V. How to use an article about prognosis. JAMA 1994; 272(3):234-7.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: VI. How to use an overview. JAMA 1994; 272(17):1367-71.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: VII. How to use a clinical decision analysis. A. Are the results of the study valid? JAMA 1995; 273(16):1292-5.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: VII. How to use a clinical decision analysis. B. What were the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? JAMA 1995; 273(20):1610-3.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: VIII. How to use clinical practice guidelines. A. Are the recommendations valid? JAMA 1995; 274(7):570-4.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: VIII. How to use clinical practice guidelines. B. What are the recommendations and will they help me in caring for my patients? JAMA 1995; 274(20):1630-2.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: IX. A method for grading health care recommendations. JAMA 1995; 274(22):1800-4.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. User’s guide to the medical literature: X. How to use an article reporting variations in the outcomes of health services. JAMA 1996; 275(7):554-8.

Guyatt GH, Rennie D (editorial). User’s guide to the medical literature. JAMA 1993; 270(17):2096-7.

Greenhalgh T, Naylor T. Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research). BMJ 1997; 315(7110):740-3.

Greenhalgh T. Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses). BMJ,1997; 315(7109):672-5.

Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses). BMJ 1997; 315(7108):596-9.

Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests. BMJ 1997; 315(7107):540-3.

Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Papers that report drug trials. BMJ 1997; 315(7106):480-3.

Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Statistics for the non- statistician. II: “Significant” relations and their pitfalls. BMJ. 1997; 315(7105):422-5.

Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests. BMJ 1997; 315(7104):364-6.

Greenhalgh T. Assessing the methodological quality of published papers. BMJ 1997; 315(7103):305-8.

Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about). BMJ 1997; 315(7102):243-6.

Greenhalgh T. How to read a paper. The Medline database. BMJ 1997; 315(7101):180-3.

Lowe HJ, Barnett GO. Understanding and using the medical subject headings (MeSH) vocabulary to perform literature searches. JAMA 1994; 271(14):1103-8.

Castro AA, Clark OAC, Atallah AN. Optimal search strategy for clinical trials in the Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature. São Paulo Med J 1997; 115(3):1423-6.