title: Evaluating and understanding articles about treatment.
abstract: Each year physicians must decide which of the thousands of newly published articles they will take time to read. To determine which articles are the most clinically useful, physicians should assess their relevance, validity, and clinical importance. Using these criteria can drastically decrease the number of articles physicians need to read.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Malden, Massachusetts 02148, USA. allen.shaughnessy@tufts.edu
authors.forename: Allen F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Shaughnessy
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results