GSU Library Research Guides: PHPH 8890 / EPRS 8840: Biostatistics, Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis: Reading Critically

BMJ's "How to Read a Paper" Series

BMJ's How to Read a Paper Series

Getting Your Bearings (Deciding What the Paper is About)

Assessing the Methodological Quality of Published Papers

Papers that Report Diagnostic or Screening Tests

Papers that Report Drug Trials

Papers that Tell You What Things Cost (Economic Analyses)

Papers that Summarise Other Papers (Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)

Statistics for the Non-Statistician I: Different Types of Data Need Different Statistical Tests

Statistics for the Non-Statistician II: "Significant" Relations and Their Pitfalls

Papers that Go Beyond Numbers (Qualitative Research)

Getting Your Bearings

How to Read a Paper: Getting Your Bearings (Deciding What the Paper is About)

Community Guide

The Community Guide
When communities need to know how to protect and improve their population’s health, they turn to The Community Guide, a collection of evidence-based recommendations and findings from the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF). CPSTF makes evidence-based recommendations about the effectiveness and economic impact of public health programs, services, and other interventions used in real-world settings such as communities, worksites, schools, faith-based organizations, military bases, public health clinics and departments, and integrated healthcare systems.

Cochrane Library

Cochrane Library
Evidence-based healthcare information. Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers.

Use the Cochrane Library to find full-text of Cochrane systematic reviews. View the paper to see their analysis of clinical studies and how they compare them to each other.