How to assess a clinical trial

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Outline of the topics covered in this Evidence Based Medicine PowerPoint:

• Selection of unbiased papers (check for financial relationships between the author and the manufacturer).
• Analize the title of the study: interesting? useful? relevant?.
• Abstract: introduction, methods, results, conclusion.
• Don’t skip the methods and results section.
• Guidelines to distinguish useful versus useless results.
• Validity of clinical trials: comparation, randomization, blinding.
• Equivalence and noninferiority trials: definition and comparison.
• Systematic reviews.
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