SSM2660

Forthcoming BASIC courses: August - Brisbane, Hawkes Bay, Kuala Lumpur, Bali; September - Hong Kong; October - Sydney, Chennai
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Objective

By the end of the module students should be able to critically analyze published research including randomized controlled trials, cohort studies and case series.

Papers to be discussed

R. L. Levine, M. A. Wayne, and C. C. Miller. End-tidal carbon dioxide and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. N.Engl.J.Med 337:301-306, 1997.

Ellis J. Mulligan I. Rowe J. Sackett DL. Inpatient general medicine is evidence based. A-Team, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine. Lancet. 346(8972):407-10, 1995

C. Ball, M. Kirkby, and S. Williams. Effect of the critical care outreach team on patient survival to discharge from hospital and readmission to critical care: non-randomised population based study. Br Med J 327 (7422):1014-0, 2003.

R. Bellomo, D. Goldsmith, S. Uchino, J. Buckmaster, G. K. Hart, H. Opdam, W. Silvester, L. Doolan, and G. Gutteridge. A prospective before-and-after trial of a medical emergency team. Medical Journal of Australia 179 (6):283-287, 2004.

G. Gutierrez, F. Palizas, G. Doglio, N. Nainsztein, A. Gallesio, J. Pacin, A. Dubin, E. Schiavi, M. Jorge, F. Klein, E. San Roman, B. Dorfman, J. Shottlender, and R. Giniger. Gastric intramucosal pH as a therapeutic index of tissue oxygenation in critically ill patients. Lancet 339:195-199, 1992.

Ziegler EJ. Fisher CJ Jr. Sprung CL. Straube RC. Sadoff JC. Foulke GE. Wortel CH. Fink MP. Dellinger RP. Teng NN. et al. Treatment of gram-negative bacteremia and septic shock with HA-1A human monoclonal antibody against endotoxin. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The HA-1A Sepsis Study Group. New England Journal of Medicine. 324(7):429-36, 1991

Resources

• Trisha Greenhalgh
  How to read a paper : getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
  BMJ, Jul 1997; 315: 243 - 246

• Trisha Greenhalgh
  How to read a paper: Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
  BMJ, Aug 1997; 315: 305 - 308

• Trisha Greenhalgh
  How to read a paper: Papers that report drug trials
  BMJ, Aug 1997; 315: 480 - 483

• Trisha Greenhalgh
  How to read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
  BMJ, Aug 1997; 315: 540 - 543

• Trisha Greenhalgh
  How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests
  BMJ, Aug 1997; 315: 364 - 366

• Trisha Greenhalgh
  How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls
  BMJ, Aug 1997; 315: 422 - 425

• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

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