Contemporary Drug Information

A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING CONTEMPORARY HEALTH CARE INFORMATION Chapter 1: Integrating Drug Information, Literature Evaluation, and Biostatistics to Provide Evidence-based Pharmaceutical Care Chapter 2: Asking and Answering Drug Information Questions TOOLS FOR EVALUATING CONTEMPORARY HEALTH CARE INFORMATION Chapter 3: Overview of Research Designs Used to Answer Drug Information Questions Chapter 4: Biostatistics Concepts: The Building Blocks for Evaluating Biostatistical Methods in Clinical Research Chapter 5: Foundations of Statistical Inference Chapter 6: Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Cases Chapter 7: Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Cohorts and Surveys Chapter 8: Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials Chapter 9: Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Pharmacoeconomics Studies Chapter 10: Critical Appraisal of Evidence Derived from Systematic Reviews CLINICAL DECISION MAKING USING CONTEMPORARY HEALTH CARE INFORMATION Chapter 11: Evaluating and Implementing Practice Guidelines Chapter 12: Keeping Current with the Medical Literature: Becoming an Information Master Appendix A: Drug Information Tables Appendix B: Statistical Tables Appendix C: Reprints of Critiqued Articles Glossary Index