Adjacent: Medicine & Systems · Systems
How to Read a Medical Study
Turn headlines into numbers. The evidence hierarchy, randomization and blinding, relative vs absolute risk, number needed to treat, confidence intervals and p-values, confounding, surrogate endpoints and a quick checklist for any health claim.
Step 1 of 5 · Overview35 min read ·
Key idea
Prereqs: Conditional probability & Bayes; Statistics basics (Math). Next: Navigating the US health system. Sources: Ben Goldacre's *Bad Science*, Greenhalgh's *How to Read a Paper*, CONSORT guidelines, First10EM.Not medical advice. Education only; talk to a doctor about your own health, medications or symptoms.
Next: 1. The hierarchy