Principles of Scientific Literature Evaluation: Critiquing Clinical Drug Trials presents a structured, question-based approach to evaluating drug trials. This method provides a system for critically assessing and correctly using information in scientific literature.

Nine sharply focused chapters, organized by the typical sections of a published article, provide a basic overview of how to critique papers that describe drug studies.

Contents

1. Evaluating the Scientific Literature
2. Abstract and Introduction
3. Methods: Patients and Research Setting
4. Methods: Use of Experimental Controls
5. Methods: Measurement of Results
6. Results: Protocol and Data Management Problems
7. Results: Presentation of Data
8. Results: Interpretation of Data
9. Discussion and Conclusions

Index

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