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*GERO 2000: Intro to Gerontology: 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)

Resources for Critical Appraisal of Articles

JAOA's EBM Series

Cochrane Library

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Provides evidence to inform healthcare decision-making in a collection of six databases: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Database, and NHS Economic Evaluation Database.

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.

Getting Your Bearings

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