文档介绍：CRITICAL APPRAISAL
OF MEDICAL LITERATURE
CRITICAL APPRAISAL
OF MEDICAL LITERATURE
David Marchevsky
Mi/ton munity NHS Trust
Mi/ton Keynes, England
Foreword by Dr. Naum Marchevsky
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Marchevsky, David.
Critical appraisal of medical Iiterature/David Marchevsky; foreword by Naum Marchevsky.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4613-6887-8 ISBN 978-1-4615-4205-6 (eBook)
DOI -1-4615-4205-6
1. Medicalliterature-Evaluation. 2. Medicine-Research-Evaluation. 3. Clinical
medicine-Decision making. I. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Biometry-methods. 2. Meta-Analysis. 3. Research Design. 4.
Statistics-methods. 5. Writing. WA 950 M317c 2000]
.M37 2000
610' .7'2-dc21
00-135008
Front cover: Synthesis and Analysis
ISBN 978-1-4613-6887-8
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Originally published by Kluwer AcademicIPlenum Publishers in 2000
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000
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FOREWORD
I am pleased and proud to have been asked to write the Foreword for this book. I am
especially proud because, as you can see, the author's surname and mine are the same. It is
not a coincidence; it happens that Dr. David Marchevsky is a nephew of mine (a fact for
which, at any rate, he is not responsible).
I am very pleased to have participated in the extraordinary feat plished by the
author, although in a very modest way, by reviewing the manuscript and by making a few
comments and suggestions.
Let me tell you why I consider this book an important contribution t