Statistics Workbook for Evidence-based Health Care

This concise, easy to understand and learner-friendly book invites readers to actively participate in the understanding of medical statistical concepts that are frequently used in health care research and evidence-based practice worldwide.

Knowing that the best way to learn statistical concepts is to use them, the authors employ real examples and articles from health science literature, complete with the complexities that real life presents. This approach helps bring researchers and clinicians one step closer to being statistical savvy and better able to critically read research literature and interpret the results.

Statistics Workbook for Evidence-based Health Care is a practical hands-on workbook for individual or group exercises. It teaches how to understand statistical methods when reading journals, and how to use them in clinical research. The book emphasizes the use of statistics in evidence-based research.

Relevant for anyone needing to use statistics, this workbook is an ideal resource for all health care professionals and students, especially those learning and practising evidence-based medicine.