Are these results trustworthy? A guide for reading the medical literature
Physicians practicing evidence-based medicine need to be able to appraise a new study and determine whether the results warrant sufficient certainty to the level that they can be applied to patient care. Without such appraisal, misleading results can be incorporated into patient care, which can lead...
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| description | Physicians practicing evidence-based medicine need to be able to appraise a new study and determine whether the results warrant sufficient certainty to the level that they can be applied to patient care. Without such appraisal, misleading results can be incorporated into patient care, which can lead to inefficient, costly, and possibly harmful care. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach offers a modern framework that can be applied to evaluate the trustworthiness of evidence. In this guide, we present a simplified approach based on GRADE; in which we call on readers of the medical literature to pay attention to six domains before making an overall judgment about the trustworthiness of results and before applying the evidence to patient care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-891c2fe4d202426abe194b27cceaa01a2022-12-21T18:02:20ZengThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.Avicenna Journal of Medicine2231-07702249-44642017-04-010702465010.4103/2231-0770.203611Are these results trustworthy? A guide for reading the medical literatureFares Alahdab0Allison Morrow1Mouaz Alsawas2M Hassan Murad3Evidence-based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAEvidence-based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAEvidence-based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAEvidence-based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAPhysicians practicing evidence-based medicine need to be able to appraise a new study and determine whether the results warrant sufficient certainty to the level that they can be applied to patient care. Without such appraisal, misleading results can be incorporated into patient care, which can lead to inefficient, costly, and possibly harmful care. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach offers a modern framework that can be applied to evaluate the trustworthiness of evidence. In this guide, we present a simplified approach based on GRADE; in which we call on readers of the medical literature to pay attention to six domains before making an overall judgment about the trustworthiness of results and before applying the evidence to patient care.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/2231-0770.203611assessmentcritical appraisaldevelopment and evaluation frameworkevidence-based medicinegrading of recommendationsmedical education |
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| title | Are these results trustworthy? A guide for reading the medical literature |
| title_full | Are these results trustworthy? A guide for reading the medical literature |
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| title_short | Are these results trustworthy? A guide for reading the medical literature |
| title_sort | are these results trustworthy a guide for reading the medical literature |
| topic | assessment critical appraisal development and evaluation framework evidence-based medicine grading of recommendations medical education |
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