How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine (53 page)
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Authors: Trisha Greenhalgh
selection bias
semi-structured interview
sensitivity
sensitivity analysis
sequence generation, CONSORT checklist
SF-36 general health questionnaire
shared decision-making
significance, statistical
simple interventions
skewed data
snowball samples, questionnaire research
social cognition
social movement
‘social stigma’
‘soft’ science
Someren, Van
sources
pre-appraised
synthesised
specialised resources
specific educational intervention
specificity
spectrum of participants
‘splitters and lumpers’
sponsors and stakeholders
SQUIRE guidelines
stages of change models
stakeholders
standard current practice
standard deviation (SD)
standard gamble measurements
standardisation
standards, explicit and accessible
statin therapy
statistical questions, preliminary
statistical significance
statistical tests
appropriate
evaluation
statistics
STEP (safety, tolerability, efficacy, price)
steroid treatment, prenatal
stratified random samples
stringent criteria
stroke
anticoagulants
meta-analyses
methodological quality
structured reporting format
studies
case
cohort
design
in-/exclusion of participants
organisational case
original protocol
other-language
‘patients’
primary
process evaluation
psychometric
research question
(un)original
validation
withdrawal of patients
subgroups, complex interventions
retrospective analysis
subjective judgements
subpopulations
surfactant treatment
surrogate endpoints
surveys
cross-sectional
literature
longitudinal
Swinglehurst, Deborah
synopses
synthesised sources
systematic bias
systematic reviews
databases
evaluation
evidence-based practice
systematically skewed samples
t
-test
table, two-by-two
tails
target population
target variable
X
2
-test
tests
diagnostic
‘gold standard’
non-parametric
PSA
reproducible
screening
statistical
theoretical sampling
therapy
anticoagulant
CBT
decision-making
‘dice’
NSAID
statin
see
also treatments
therapy studies, trial design
thrombosis, DVT
time trade-off measurements
traditional hierarchy of evidence
transferable results
‘trashing’ papers
Treasury’s viewpoint
treatments
drug
non-medical
objective of
prenatal steroid
see
also therapy
trials
design
n
of
‘negative’
non-randomised controlled clinical
pilot
randomised controlled,
see
randomised controlled trials
triangulation
TRIP
tutorials, online
TWIST
two-by-two table
‘typical’ patients
underfunding
‘unoriginal’ studies
unquestioned assumptions
validation
clinical guidelines
diagnostic tests
validity
external
psychometric
variables
explanatory
statistical regression
verification bias
viewpoint of economic analyses
‘washout’ periods
web-based resources, EBM
Whole Systems Demonstrator
work-up bias
WTP/WTA (Willingness to Pay/Accept)