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A Controlled Trial of Teaching Critical Appraisal of the Clinical Literature to Medical Students

Abstract

We carried out a controlled trial of teaching the critical appraisal of clinical literature among final-year clinical clerks. Tutors at two of four teaching hospitals were offered a short course in the critical appraisal of clinical articles that describe diagnostic tests and treatments and were assisted in identifying and appraising specialty-specific articles that described those diagnostic tests and treatments that clinical clerks were sure …

Authors

Bennett KJ; Sackett DL; Haynes RB; Neufeld VR; Tugwell P; Roberts R

Journal

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 257, No. 18, pp. 2451–2454

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Publication Date

May 8, 1987

DOI

10.1001/jama.1987.03390180069025

ISSN

0098-7484