Annie Hughes's List: Using medical literature

Critical Thinking: Understanding and Evaluating Dental Research is a significantly updated and revised edition of the text by Donald M. Brunette that first appeared in 1996. Given the increased emphasis on evidence-based dentistry and the appropriate integration of research evidence into the clinical decision making process, the appearance of this new edition is especially timely. The purpose of the book is to provide dental students and dental educators, as well as the experienced practitioner, with the tools to critically evaluate the dental research literature as an aid to clinical practice. While the first edition consisted of 244 pages and nineteen chapters (including a problem set and commentary as the final chapter), the second edition has been expanded to 312 pages and twenty-two chapters, with additional material on rhetoric, logic, and statistical analysis. The second edition, like the first, includes a number of statistical tables in an appendix. A large number of figures and tables complements the text.