How to read a paper

 

    A series of articles appearing in the BMJ by Trisha Greenhalgh, all of which are freely available; click the links below:

  

How to read a paper : getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)

 

How to read a paper: Assessing the methodological quality of published papers

 

How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests

 

How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls

 

How to read a paper: Papers that report drug trials

 

How to read a paper: Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)

 

How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)

 

How to read a paper: Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)

 

How to read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests

 

How to read a paper: The Medline database