HOW TO READ A SCIENTIFIC PAPER
Trishia Greenhalgh, M.D.
Professor of Primary Health Care at University College London
Master Citation: Greenhalgh, T. 1997. How to read a paper: ________. BMJ, 315: ________.
  1. The Medline database 180 -183.
  2. Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about) 243 - 246.
  3. Assessing the methodological quality of published papers. 305 - 308.
  4. Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests. 364 - 366.
  5. Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls. 422 - 425.
  6. Papers that report drug trials. 480 - 483.
  7. Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests. 540 - 543.
  8. Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses). 596 - 599.
  9. Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses). 672 - 675.
  10. Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research). 740 - 743.
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