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Cohort studies. The characteristics of cohort studies, their measures of association and impact, and their most characteristic features are described.
Science without sense...double nonsense
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Science without sense...double nonsense
Evidence Based Medicine pills
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Which family you belong?
Classification of epidemiological studies. Classification of epidemiological studies is made according to their observational or analytical character, directionality and temporality and sampling. As we already know from previous posts, the evidence-based medicine systematics begins with a knowledge gap that moves us…
The hereafter
Other search engines. PubMed is the most used bibliographic search engine, but there are many more such as Embase, the Cochrane’s tools and some metasearch engines such as TRIP. We have already seen in previous posts how to search for information…
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Structured clinical question. Any knowledge gap should be formulated as a structured clinical question. Its components are: patients, intervention, comparison and outcome.
The three pillars of wisdom
Critical appraisal overview. We describe a critical appraisal overview, allowing to assess validity, relevance and applicability of medical documents.