Provides clinicians and medical students with an approach to reading and understanding research articles that appear in medical journals, focusing largely on epidemiology.

Tasting an article -- Study design: general considerations -- Study design: the case-control approach -- Study design: the cross-sectional and follow-up approaches -- Study design: the experimental approach -- Study design: variations -- Making measurements -- Analysis: statistical significance -- Analysis: some statistical tests -- Interpretation: sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value -- Interpretation: risk -- Interpretation: causes -- Cases series, editorials, and reviews -- A final word.