Table of Contents

SECTION I: PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL REASONING
Of Patients & Populations: Population-Based Data in Clinical Practice
Test Performance: Disease Probability, Test Interpretation & Diagnosis
Quantitative Aspects of Clinical Thinking: Predictive Values and Bays′ Theorem
Fundamentals of Screening: The Art and Science of Looking for Trouble
Measuring and Conveying Risk
SECTION II: PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL RESEARCH
Hypothesis Testing 1: Principles
Hypothesis Testing 2: Mechanics
Study Design
Interpreting Statistics in the Medical Literature
SECTION III: FROM RESEARCH TO REASONING: THE APPLICATION OF EVIDENCE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Decision Analysis
Diagnosis
Management
APPENDICES

Reviews

"The presentation is consistently excellent. One, the writing is lucid and organized in a way that should be very natural for the clinical reader. Two, the text requires no background in mathematics and uses a minimum of symbols. And, three, the methodological concepts and clinical issues are well integrated through a number of carefully prepared and comprehensive examples." 
*Greg Samsa*