Using the Medical Literature to Provide Optimal Patient Care

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Using the Medical Literature to Provide Optimal Patient Care Source: How to Use the Medical Literature—and This Book—to Improve Your Patient Care, Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3rd ed Citation: Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade MO, Cook DJ. Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3rd ed; 2015 Available at: https://jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/DownloadImage.aspx?image=/data/Books/847/guyatt_ch01_fig-01-01.jpeg&sec=69031568&BookID=847&ChapterSecID=69031457&imagename= Accessed: December 28, 2017 Copyright © 2017 American Medical Association. All rights reserved

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