Evidence about effects of interventions

Sally Bennett; Tammy C Hoffmann

Evidence about effects of interventions

Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare

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Abstract

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
• Understand more about study designs appropriate for answering questions about effects of
interventions
• Generate a structured clinical question about an intervention for a clinical scenario
• Appraise the validity of randomised controlled trials
• Understand how to interpret the results from randomised controlled trials and calculate
additional results (such as confidence intervals) where possible
• Describe how evidence about the effects of intervention can be used to inform
practice

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evidence-based practice across the health professions
Editors	Tammy Hoffmann, Sally Bennett, Chris Del Mar
Place of Publication	Chatswood, Australia
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	61-96
Number of pages	36
Edition	2nd
ISBN (Print)	9780729541350
Publication status	Published - 2013

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