Today Professor Adrian Boswood joins Brian and myself in the studio to talk about how to read a paper. In the digital age many people can access information, though in a professional sense we need to learn how to process this and evaluate the information to understand if and how it can be applied to our patients. We hope that you enjoy. Don't forget to vote for us in the https://www.britishpodcastawards.com please!

There are some great toolkits out there to assist with evidence-based veterinary medicine https://knowledge.rcvs.org.uk/evidence-based-veterinary-medicine/ebvm-toolkit/

Lectures from the RCVS knowledge EBVM Skills day are on youtube are worth a look, especially this by Dr Tim Mair on How to Critically appraise a paper and how to run a journal club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tza1mqorPGU&list=PLH0d8Oil9uAt3tKX9S-cp0FUoQKpZi210&index=3

Here are the books that Prof Boswood recommends in the podcast:

Clinical Epidemiology

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1451178794

Study design and statistical analysis

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0521826756

And this is one that I found helpful.

How to read a paper

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1118801113

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