Understanding Medical Research

Statistics for the non-statistician
Part I: Different types of data need different statistical tests.
Part II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls.

Series on Evaluation of Scientific Publications from Deutsches Ärzteblatt International the German Medical Association’s official international science journal—is a weekly, peer-reviewed, open-access online journal of clinical medicine and public health.

Part 1: Critical Appraisal of Scientific Articles Series

Part 2: Study Design in Medical Research

Part 3: Types of Study in Medical Research

Part 4: Confidence Interval or P-Value?

Part 5: Requirements and Assessment of Laboratory Tests

Part 6: Systematic Literature Reviews and Meta-Analyses

Part 7: Descriptive Statistics: The Specification of Statistical Measures and Their Presentation in Tables and Graphs

Part 8: Avoiding Bias in Observational Studies

Part 9: Interpreting Results in 2×2 Tables

Part 10: Judging a Plethora of p-Values: How to Contend With the Problem of Multiple Testing

Part 11: Data Analysis of Epidemiological Studies

JAMA Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

Today was a breakfast from the usual morning report process. Therefore, without a morning report presentation to post, I would like to share with you a different resource that can be found in JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association. I learned about this series from Dr. Kristine Campbell. The resource is a series of brief articles that have been titled 'Users' Guides to the Medical Literature'. These users' guides were developed to provide tools for clinicians to search for and evaluate the medical literature to solve real patient problems. If you would like to learn more you may start with the editorial on the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. Intermountain has full-text online access to JAMA from 1998 to the present. Currently there is not remote access for Intermountain, however the Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah does have remote access.

Once you view the collection below in PubMed you may order the articles by title to view them in the order they were published.

View my collection, "JAMA Users' Guides to Medical Literature" from NCBI