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Recommended Books on EBHC

Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials (4th ed.)
Robert H. Fletcher & Suzanne W. Fletcher. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.

Evaluating Clinical Research: All That Glitters is Not Gold (2nd ed.)
Bengt D. Furberg & Curt D. Furberg
Springer, 2007.

Evidence Based Medicine
(3rd  ed.)
Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, Paul Glasziou & R. Brian Haynes. Churchill Livingstone; 2005.

How to Read a Paper
(3rd ed.)
Trisha Greenhalgh. BMJ Publishing Group;2006.

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice.
Gordon H. Guyatt & Drummond Rennie. American Medical Association Press; 2001.

NHWG Medical Directors Journal Club

The National Hospice Work Group (NHWG)Medical Directors Journal Club provides a forum for discussion and appraisal of recently published research and reviews significant to hospice and palliative care.

Critically Appraised Articles

Click on the title to view the critical appraisal of the article discussed by journal club members.

Comparison of fixed-dose weight-adjusted unfractionated heparin and low-molecular-weight heparin for acute treatment of venous thromboembolism.Kearon C, et.al.; JAMA. 2006 Aug 23;296(8):935-42. (discussed 4-07)

Symptom improvement in lung cancer patients treated with erlotinib: quality of life analysis of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group Study BR.21. Bezjak A, et.al.; J Clin Oncol. 2006 Aug 20;24(24):3831-7. (discussed 1-07)

EBHC Online Tools and Resources

Hospice and palliative care clinicians from around the country reviewed methods of critical appraisal at the 9th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Evidence Based Health Care.

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